•✫•Tiny Stories from an 11-day •Solo Trip• to the Mountains•✫•
Hundred years ago & decades before he killed himself with his favorite shotgun, Hemingway had warned humans — “ ✫ Never go on a trip with anyone you do not love ✫ ” — As I listen exclusively to paranoid writers who kill themselves, I went on an 11-day solo trip as I had girls to take along, but I didn’t love any of ‘em. I woke up before the sun on 10 th October — sat in a six.am train from Delhi to Kathgodam [this station is prettier than your girlfriend]. To reach Nainital, I hopped on a shared cab with a girl who was wearing two masks & seemed more paranoid than Hemingway before he shot himself. Three days later, I saw her walking in Nainital, so she hadn’t shot herself with her favorite shotgun — well, not yet . Between April 1994 & March 1999, I lived in dorms in a boarding school amidst mountains. 23 years later, I was back in dorms amidst mountains. Though these hostel dorms & my boarding school dorms were different , they were similar in two ways: ...