Travel : Thiruvananthapuram - Kanyakumari - Alappuzha (Alleppey) - Kollam
Thiruvananthapuram - Kanyakumari - Alappuzha - Kollam "From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, India is one"... Right from the days of our very early childhood we have proudly learnt about this adage of our national unity. But how many people have got a real taste of it !! As early as in March 1999, I got a chance to see Kashmir since it was my first posting after completing the army training at Officers Training Academy Chennai. ... Since then, my postings have taken me to the East-West extremes of Arunachal Pradesh and Bhuj too. But it took exactly 24 years for me to get a chance to visit the Southern end of Indian spectrum, Kanyakumari. I topped it up by exploring parts of the Travancore region of Kerala in my ever-filling travel bucket of South India. Post-independence, Travancore had merged with the Indian Union and Kanyakumari became a district of erstwhile Madras State (later, Tamil Nadu) in 1956. Today Thiruvananthapuram is a city that seems to shy away from owning to its...