Dehradun, Nov. 23 -- Nitin aka Tintin in the land of the Incas

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

The inner Tintin in me couldn't resist this title since I grew up on the very limited collection of 24 Tintin classics of Herge, the iconic cartoonist and creator of this Belgian 'national hero' (someone as revered as Sherlock Holmes is in England). Both are of course not real people from history, but nonetheless have statues and entire museums dedicated to them, which tells you the power of storytelling. I suppose we all can relate to them in some way as I relate to Tintin, the adventurer & reporter.

'Tintin in the Land of the Incas' could well have been the title of one of Herge's classics but he did have 'The Temple of the ...