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Strange Passions and Scared Conscience

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I'm little nervous. This will be my first night trek. I always find it to be amusing to lurk in the dark as the night falls and i have this liking for sodium vapour light. City becomes quieter with commuters passing by occasionally and the road will become ours to rule,  i've even gotten crazy once when i was in Adambakkam in Chennai, running along the entire width of the road, to and fro several times along with my friends .  But as the Tempo traveller entered the realms of Vishnu, it is a completely different story. No road or sodium light. Just pitch-black. In a vain attempt, tried to shoot a photo with the flash on, it did captured light bouncing off from some 200 metres, a tree, which appeared ghostly, and some bushes beyond that. We were able to see the outline of the hillock Narayangiri at some distance looking terrific in the dark void. It was 11 in the morning on the D-day and I was packing my stuffs according to ...