A few weeks before when Roopesh reminded me that we need to make Payir blog alive again, I promised to make amends from March. Around the same time, I was asked to be part of the District team to go for a Capacity building exercise on making Indian villages Open Defecation free. It was to be in Nainital and was a 5 day programme and in all it would mean being away from the village for close to 10 days with the travel. At the village though, there were many works that needed my presence. There were also lot of organizational problems - number of our initiatives going through the roughest period so far, my own personal integrity questioned over and over in the last few months. The day when I had to decide for sure on the trip, I broke down for the first time in front of public...I will write someday on that! It also helped me to decide that I needed a break!
The journey to Nainital was with lot of feelings..lot of unwinding needed to happen if I needed to enjoy myself..and what a time I had!!