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Varsha Seshan

Catching Up – Writing

June 7, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s that time again, when I’ve postponed blogging for so long that I don’t know where to begin. I keep saying that I intend to do monthly roundups and that never happens. I’m now planning to do a series of posts, catching up with what’s gone by, though. In terms of writing, I’m working on […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Adventures in Northern Sikkim, Inside Himalayas, Making a Clone, North Sikkim, poem, Scoop, sikkim, The Prophecy of Rasphora

Yumthang Valley

January 28, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I remember the first time I watched The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I watched the old movie, of course, where Mr and Mrs Beaver were people in beaver costumes, and the section where the children ride on Aslan was old-fashioned animation, to put it mildly. Yet, I loved it so much that I still remember much of it word […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: North Sikkim, sikkim, Yumthang Valley

The Road to Yumthang

January 27, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It was a bright, cold day. Bundled up in thermals, sweaters, mufflers, gloves and coats, we set off for Yumthang, famously known as the Valley of Flowers. In spring, a carpet of flowers rolls over the valley, and in winter, a blanket of snow. As we shivered with cold and excitement, we hoped we would […]

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North Sikkim

January 25, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

“Should we really go?”“Is it safe?”“Just yesterday, people got stuck in Lachung and had to be rescued!”“And vehicles have not even been allowed to go towards Yumthang.”“Maybe we should just cancel our Lachung-Yumthang plan and stay in Gangtok.” On the 10 January, NDTV reported that over 150 tourists were stuck in the Lachung Valley and […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: gangtok, Lachung, North Sikkim, sikkim, Yumthang