3. Where did you go on vacations as a child?
This is less about a vacation and more about the travel itself. In the 1968-1971 period, we were living in the small town of Allahabad in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where our father was an Indian Air Force officer posted to the Air Force Base at Bamrauli. Here is a picture inside our house, with parents, brother Harish and sister Aruna. At that time we owned this Ambassador car (pix is father, Aruna and a neighbor): In those days, inter-city travel by car was very rare: the highway infrastructure was very rough and roadside facilities were extremely poor. In spite of this, our father boldly took us on several long distance trips. This story is about one of them: we drove from Allahabad to Chennai and back. Our family of six, plus father's younger brother (the only other driver) did the trip over many weeks. We packed all our luggage on a roof carrier. Harish and I became experts at loading and unloading the luggage, especially ro...