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Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Benares, Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad, India, Jaffna, Jaipur, Madras, Malaysia, Nepal, Patna, Puri, railway, Sarnath, Trichy, Udaipur, Varanasi
In April 1970 I set off by myself for a tour of India. I was supposed to join my father at a Conference in Nepal, and there were friends of the family in all the big cities, but I was supposed to travel and tour all by myself. I was keen on the plan, since I had had some experience of travel previously, in Madras in 1968 and in 1969 in Malaysia. In both cases I did much on my own though I stayed each night with friends of my parents. On this occasion I was still 15, and now cannot understand how my parents were persuaded to agree to the plan, since it involved long journeys and many nights on my own. But they did, for which I remain eternally grateful. Continue reading
