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The ongoing pandemic, especially the devastating second wave of the COVID-19 contagion in India, might make it ever tougher to look forward to new experiences like we did earlier, but every once in a while, hope surfaces in the form of initiatives and acts of courage. Be it sending a t-shirt as a symbol of hope, on a world tour, or embarking upon a bicycle ride across Kumaon and the country s west coast, we have proved that hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Earlier this year, in a similar display of courage and inspiration, Dr Mitra Satheesh, a travel blogger and Ayurveda practitioner from Kochi, left for a 100-day drive across India with her 10-year-old son, Narayan, as her travel partner. The drive, however, had to be hastened when the second wave in the country intensified. Even so, Mitra and Narayan, covered 17,000 kilometres in a span of 51 days. For someone who started active travel only in 2019, to cover 300 kilometres daily on average for such a long