A Voyage
through the Echoes by Prakriti Singh is a beautifully written travel book. For
sure, if any one of us taken a journey through India will definitely find the
tagline most appropriate - A Journey through India to Be Remembered for
Lifetime.
The narrator
is a young college girl from Himachal Pradesh, pursuing Forestry degree at her
college. The trip is arranged by her college department. Initially she was
withdrawn toward the trip because of some emotional disturbance, well with peer
pressure she gets on the trip and little did she realize that it’s going to be
her life’s best trip she would ever made. College trips are fun and when they
are on long routes…the heart goes gala…gala. This short book, full of travel
experiences, is going to take you all on a fantastic trip that too through
trains and at times by buses. Longer the journey, more the fun.
As the story
chugs out of the narrator’s home place, we see many cities with them, with
cultural and local heritage running like banter in the backdrop. Imagine so
many cities in one trip: Dehradun, Mussoorie, Jodhpur, Mumbai, Goa, Trivandrum,
Kanyakumari, Hyderabad and many more. Who would forget this kind of trip?
Other than fun
factor, there are other aspects that one has to deal while travelling, for
example the narrator was passing through a rough-time in her relationship, she
was engaged in a long distance relationship and her boyfriend was dominating
and extra possessive about her. Because of him, she felt embarrassed, and at
times, like a caged bird. She was so disturbed that she even tried committing
suicide. Even to enjoy traveling, one needs to be free from emotional turmoil.
We also see
that their journey was covering so many destinations and traveling smoothly in
a country like India is not an easy task, especially they have to deal with
internal factions, tickets confirmation status at times, train delays,
adjustments with limited seats, and not to forget discrimination. Without
giving away much, we can conclude that this book will definitely encourage you
for travelling or it may help you in finding your travelling side. This
travelogue teaches us how you will discover about yourself until you take up
any trip. In the modern world where people take traveling as a break from humdrum
city life or for digital nomads, this book is not only helpful from
information’s point of view but also for inspiration.
The author has
chosen a simple and lucid way of explaining events and places, and pictures in
between add to the overall value of the book. Prakriti Singh is a fulltime
travel blogger cum entrepreneur; probably it was this trip that helped her to
evolve has a travel blogger, well you can always find more about her at her
blog: www.pracreation.com
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