Supported by Ministry of Tourism, Dr. Mitra completes her drive-through the bylanes of Incredible India!
Fifty-one days. 17,000 kilometres. 28 states. 6 union territories. Innumerable stops throughout rural India. One car and a 10-year-old companion. The numbers in Dr Mitra Das’s travel diary are undoubtedly impressive but it’s the effort, thorough planning and determination underlining the journey that is more laudable. A true hodophile, the Kerala-born Dr Mitra believes in travelling with a purpose – which, in her case, was to tour the depths of rural India, highlight places that have fallen off the map, and discover the country through a new prism. And that’s exactly what she achieved when she embarked on this life-altering trip in March this year, driving across the length and breadth of the country in her trusted Maruti S-Cross with her fifth-grader son for company. Supported by Incredible India and the Ministry of Tourism, Dr Mitra’s expedition, titled ‘Oru Desi Drive’, is probably a rare instance of a woman attempting to crisscross the nation with a young child. “Strangely, I was n...