I remember first two years at Tensa a beautiful valley where I joined my first assignment, I used to walk long amidst the clouds a cooler place and used to run, mild run similar to walk, up to zero point a place in the valley especially during weekends, after four to five years leaving that place I still longed for such place to have a walk there, where cool winds and clouds would be touching you and you cross all these so called virtual barriers to cross the country side.

I remember first two years at Tensa a beautiful valley where I joined my first assignment, I used to walk long amidst the clouds a cooler place and used to run, mild run similar to walk, up to zero point a place in the valley especially during weekends, after four to five years leaving that place I still longed for such place to have a walk there, where cool winds and clouds would be touching you and you cross all these so called virtual barriers to cross the country side.

I remember first two years at Tensa a beautiful valley where I joined my first assignment, I used to walk long amidst the clouds a cooler place and used to run, mild run similar to walk, up to zero point a place in the valley especially during weekends, after four to five years leaving that place I still longed for such place to have a walk there, where cool winds and clouds would be touching you and you cross all these so called virtual barriers to cross the country side.

I am lucky that way as during my short, about five years period in project management in a company building steel bridges for Army in hills, I had a chance to visit many areas where normal visitors are not allowed like Bhutan border, Tibet border, Kashmir, Himanchal Pradesh and Sikkim on very high altitude. I find every place wonderfully beautiful and more so because I walked 10 to 30 KM a day on hilly roads, crossed fast flowing hilly rivers stepping on boulders, went up the hills and so many other adventurous going up and down. I experienced such walks more thrilling compared to what I did during my visits to almost all other hill stations in India and abroad.

I remember first two years at Tensa a beautiful valley where I joined my first assignment, I used to walk long amidst the clouds a cooler place and used to run, mild run similar to walk, up to zero point a place in the valley especially during weekends, after four to five years leaving that place I still longed for such place to have a walk there, where cool winds and clouds would be touching you and you cross all these so called virtual barriers to cross the country side.

Tensa. This word brought many memories in to my mind. Whenever I used to go for official trips when I was in Rourkela steel plant to Tensa, I used to lose myself amidst this nature's bounty.

People living in the mountain regions are really lucky.Every time I pass through Western Ghats while I am travelling to Bangalore I look at all the little villages that we pass and think how nice to be living there where you are open to the elements of nature, with no pollution, walk through the winding roads looking at the amazing display of nature ! But the irony is that those people living there long to live in large cities ...

There are many better walking tracks and walking havens even in India. Difference is we overlook them and never put them to proper use. Odisha is an example.

There are many better walking tracks and walking havens even in India. Difference is we overlook them and never put them to proper use. Odisha is an example.

We have so much to see in our country but people have not the least care to keep those places safe. We lack sense of civil value. We are selfish.