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Kashmir Diaries - 1

  From Bangalore to Srinagar: A Saga of Lines Our trip to Kashmir starts via a flight to Srinagar with a stopover at Amritsar. We leave home a little after 6:00 AM for a 9:30 AM flight. Traffic is light and we make good time. However, there are quite a few cars at the toll gate but there are multiple gates open as well. This is different from my earlier experiences where I would find long queues in front of just two gates while the other gates remained firmly shut. There is a slight wait at the toll gate despite multiple gates being open. We reach the airport a little after 7:00 AM and find it as crowded as a railway station. There are long lines to even enter the airport but a kind CISF guard takes pity on us (there is something wrong with our trolley and pushing it is difficult) and allows us to enter through the gate reserved for physically challenged people which significantly cuts down the wait time. We enter the airport and find long, long queues at the check-in counter. The ...
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Home alone...joyfully!

I have been home alone for over a year now thanks to a combination of my non-transferable job, the spouse's transferable job, and an empty nest...so here are some thoughts on what the ride's been like! Cooking what I want...or better still, not cooking at all! Yeah, I dislike cooking...given a choice would not enter the kitchen at all. But being responsible for a family for nearly 28 years means one does what one has to🙄! I remember mentally ticking off items on my to do list as I used to lie awake waiting for sleep - school uniforms washed and ironed, snack box for short break, lunch for long break, chapati dough plus veg for 3 lunch boxes, dosa batter/coconut chutney for breakfast, pants/shirts of the spouse washed and ironed, LIC premium paid (oh darn, 😢where did I put the receipt?), electricity/water bill paid, and oh, was the water motor switched on - is there enough water in the overhead tank...what if there's a power failure in the morning and the tank goes dry?...
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