I was studying in Chennai,(India) ( known as Madras , those days) in IXth standard, and even in those days, my appreciation for nature was in full bloom. I used to climb on the small hill near my house, which is the famous hillock ' St.Thomas Mount', where there is a church in the name of the apostle. There, I used to sit on a rock and face eastwards and strain my eyes to find whether the sea shore ( which was hardly 15kms away) was visible. I used to imagine that I could not only see the Bay of...

I was studying in Chennai,(India) ( known as Madras , those days) in IXth standard, and even in those days, my appreciation for nature was in full bloom. I used to climb on the small hill near my house, which is the famous hillock ' St.Thomas Mount', where there is a church in the name of the apostle. There, I used to sit on a rock and face eastwards and strain my eyes to find whether the sea shore ( which was hardly 15kms away) was visible. I used to imagine that I could not only see the Bay of...