DARJEELING TRIP It was October 2010, I was in the 12 th standard. My school organised a tour to Darjeeling. I love travelling so I gave in my name. We took two buses and started our journey from Senapati, Manipur. The journey through the hills and mountains of northern Manipur and Nagaland was mesmerizing and spectacular. The landscape drastically changed when we entered Assam. We were now welcomed by the Brahmaputra plains. With the humid climate, it was sweltering hot all through our journey in Assam. We reached West Bengal and made our way north towards Darjeeling Hills. We passed through spectacular tea gardens on the hillsides covered in mist creating a magical experience. It was raining and getting very cold. View of Darjeeling Somewhere along the road the bus that I was in couldn’t climb up the steep road so few of us had to board the other bus to lighten the load. On nearing Darjeeling we stopped along the road and...