Dehradun, Oct. 4 -- Culinary Chronicles

More than adventurous to get sidetracked and trespass into a foreign land. Perilous indeed!

An eight-hour drive from Bongaigaon in Assam to Gangtok in Sikkim transcended to fourteen with an intrepid and involuntary international trip enroute.

Till we reached Hasimara, the journey was smooth and enjoyable as we sliced the highways, listening to the Bollywood melodies and nibbling munchies off and on. In spite of traversing the militancy hit districts, fear did not persist. All thanks to the Indian Army for making us dread resistant.

The mobile network vanished and so did the internet connection leaving us without the "Global Positioning System" to navigate in the middle of a jungle with literally...