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Wayanad Visit-More than what you can ask for!

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Hi pals,           HAPPY New Year, Happy Pongal and Lohri to all of you and hope that all your dreams be fulfilled. I cannot go forward without mentioning that the last year ended in a gory way with the gang-rape and the following death of the 23-year-old paramedical student who fought for her life till the end. We saw the uglier side of our capital which is less safe for women and a series of sermons uttered by the politicians and so-called self styled god-men who conveniently put some part of blame on the hapless victim and not on perpetrators. One positive part of this incident is that we witnessed a huge protest against this atrocity and crying out for more safety for women. Anyway, I may be writing more on this topic in the next article.                              Coming back to the topic, we ended the last year with a trip to Wayanad which is situated in the North of Kerala. It is about 6-hour drive from Bangalore. This hill station, which about 150 kms down from Coorg and c