Being an ardent trekker and nature enthusiast, wandering in the woods has been my calling for decades. Funnily, a participant in one of my nature trails asked me, "How can you enjoy this Vanwaas (forest dwelling)?" For her, I was banishing myself to an arduous existence in the jungle. But, hardly did she know that listening to bird songs, the call of the cicadas, searching for camouflaged spiders, photographing multicoloured flowers and showering under the stars in perennial streams, is something stressed urbanites would pay a ransom for. Once in the wilderness, the only minor irritant that I have to concern myself with are the attention-seeking mosquitoes, buzzing around and taking jabs at me.

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