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I am a 25-year old engineer, working as a business analyst – who loves to travel and write – I love to walk and explore new places and find hidden treasures. 🙂

As a kid, I travelled around the country with my family and watched Globetrekker (then broadcast as ‘Lonely Planet’ in India) with great fascination. Then, after finishing college, the travel bug (yes, the super-cliched word) bit me in earnest, and I travelled to nothernmost region of India (Kashmir and Ladakh) and to the southernmost point of India (Kanyakmari). I made my first solo trip and made new friends while traveling.

In all these adventures, a trend started emerging from my observations during travel:
(As quoted by an anonymous traveller about India) – It is beautiful, scary, magnificent, mind-blowing, distressing and amazing.

I couldn’t agree more, and now that I have moved to Nottingham (UK) and started traveling outside India – across UK and Europe (and hopefully more around the world in future), it has given me a great opportunity to observe the life and culture of both India and these foreign lands that adopt me as one of their own as I wander along..

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
– G. K. Chesterton

Small step for mankind, large steps for dinosaur-kind? 😀

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  1. neha #

    Love the name – I Drink My Tea Sweet. Reminds me of drinking cutting chai on a street corner in Mumbai.

    April 7, 2011
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    • Abhijit #

      Thanks Neha! Oh yeah, cutting chai – I was addicted to it! In England, where there are plenty of tea varieties to be found, I am yet to find the equivalent of the lovely cutting chai!
      Am curious though, why is it called cutting chai?

      April 7, 2011
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  2. Shivya #

    Awesome, I’m in pretty much the same boat as you. Juggling a “typical” life with my love for travel & writing. Blog-rolling you 🙂 I must come back and read loads more!

    June 5, 2011
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    • Abhijit #

      Thanks Shivya! I wouldn’t call working for a Tourism Board a ‘typical’ job if one’s travel-crazy! Does it let you travel more than a ‘normal’ job? (I hope so!)
      You have a LOT of posts.. so much to go through for me! 🙂

      June 5, 2011
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  3. Heather #

    Thanks for stopping by my blog! Nice to meet you Abhijit.

    October 17, 2011
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    • Abhijit #

      Cheers Heather! Hope you also liked my blog! 🙂

      October 17, 2011
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  4. Vandhana Mohanraj #

    Hey Abhijit

    Have you read this book called ‘Hot Tea across India’? I actually thought you were the author and landed up here.Great blog btw.I have just created my travel blog and could sure use some tips from experienced bloggers like you.

    Cheers
    Vandy
    http://vandytravels.blogspot.com/

    January 24, 2012
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    • Abhijit #

      I haven’t heard about the book, but it sounds interesting. 🙂
      About the blog, I am really flattered, lol!

      January 26, 2012
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