Travel with Tanya

International traveling is no more a pleasure especially when covid-19 has casted an inauspicious shadow on the planet. Gone are the days when traveling was exhilarating, now it is a painstaking phenomenon. The word 'guidelines' plays a major role when it comes to taking international trips. Apart from our luggage, a file or folder containing all our vital documents has forcefully gained an entry into international trips. Now, coming straight to the point, in order to avoid any loopholes in our documentation we had prepared ourselves well ahead of our journey from Manila (The Philippines) to Mumbai (India) on Jan 30, 2021.  The documentation phase : As a spontaneous response to the dilemma in our minds for the above travel, we got our tickets booked on Emirates  (the only option available was via Dubai) for Jan 30, 2021. With the confirmed tickets in hand, a full-fledged process started for the arrangement of the documents listed below - Emigration Clearance Certificate (...

' Mumbai' pops up when most of the Indians think of, 'The city of dreams'. For me, it was not. My birth and phase of adolescence being in 'The Indian City of Joy', Kolkata (more precisely Northern part of Kolkata) I was very reluctant to even think of moving out of the city.  Why reluctant? There is a saying that inhabitants of North Kolkata are a step ahead when it comes to being 'conservative' and traditional in comparison to other parts of the city. And indeed, it was fact that we maintained our culture and tradition with high esteem. We have never allowed anyone or any situation to eliminate our rich culture. So, being a part of a highly conservative society, I had never thought of going to Mumbai, the financial capital of India until someday I received a call for my promotion in job. The intensity of the news was so high that it created a bi-headed impact. 1. Extreme happiness for getting promoted from pharmaceutical sales to mar...