Most journalists encounter moments in their working lives when they pause, shake their heads and ask themselves: “Am I actually being paid to cover this story?” One such moment came in May 2003, when a television channel asked me to make the insanely beautiful, nine-day trek to the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal for the commemoration of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s first ascent of the mountain, 50 years earlier.
I would have paid to make that trip. I felt the same last month, when the Arunachal Pradesh Tourism Department invited me for the “Siang ...
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First Published: Fri, May 04 2018. 21:15 IST
