Srinagar, April 11 -- Recently a relative visited home with his wife, and many a times, he recounted encounters with solo travelers, whom he met on his Australian sojourn that he had few months back and how their paths were crossed and experiences shared in fleeting moments of evanescent context. He was too flabbergasted to know that people in the world go on a journey alone without the company of their families or friends. I gently disagreed with my relative's astonishment at solo travel. I shared my own contemplations- We come into this world alone, and we depart alone. Why, then, should we be afraid to travel its wonders by ourselves? And I, a wanderer at heart, couldn't help but recall the wise words of William Hazlitt which he shared...