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Four villages and a small ransom

Posted by webmystery | 23rd March 2008

Holi (the spring festival) isn't for the timid and the faint-hearted, and those with a more pacifist mind or idealistic conception of festivals would prefer seeking a quite place on this boisterous morning. The New Panvel city borders the countryside with a plethora of hills that invitingly peek at the nearby inhabitants on their windows and bungalow terraces. Not unknown to me, for I had been there on a trekking tour to a hilltop village a year ago. So it was that I left the holi revellers behind to get some fresh air and change of scenery. Unknown to me, I was on my way to visit the very same villages I had observed from those hills, and refuse paying ransom to a bunch of holi playing kids.

The driver of the six-seater minivan (which is normally packed with twelve, one perched on the window grill) would have thought me mad if he were to know that his passenger didn't know his destination! I was to get down a

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