Homepage category / Published Articles / TravelMy Life as an Army Brat and How It Shaped My Ideas About Life & Travel (Conde Nast Traveller) July 3, 2020 Written by 0 Shunali Khullar Shroff recollects a childhood spent constantly on the move as an army kid…I was always the new girl at school. A resolutely optimistic new girl, almost always let down by the reality of finding out that my latest school wasn’t grander than my previous one, and that the friends I had left behind were cooler than the ones I was about to make. Our memories are full of things we shall never experience again.The older we grow, the more we long for that moment irretrievably lost in time. The nostalgia I feel for the life I left behind can best be described as saudade. We are all afflicted with that longing for the past, and the stasis we now find ourselves in has only intensified that yearning. Well, I thank god for the ban on travel during the lockdown, but there’s no such moratorium on time travelFurther Reading... Women Who Rock the Boat Without a Care (Livemint) August 24, 2019 Capri and nothing else June 24, 2022 Is that what India is About? (Condé Nast Traveller) November 24, 2015No CommentsLeave a ReplySave my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Previous PostMedical Tourism of a Different Kind (Condé Nast Traveller) Next PostThe New Mid-Life Crisis and How I Came to Accept It (HT Brunch)
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