Eighteen- months into the pandemic, we are all responding with our different coping mechanisms. When we think about traveling, what comes along is anxiety and the need to rehabilitate the idea of human connection; even though the internet is a boon in this pandemic, many of us have experienced isolation and struggled to do - alone.  What is the mode of liberation from the pandemic chaos if not traveling?  Isabella Eberhardt wrote, “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” Traveling for leisure is now a matter of conservative privilege, the travel industry is now setting out to develop new strategies for reviving demands, which majorly depe

Author-Shlok Talati