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Holiday Diaries #8: KANATAL!: The Night Trek

5 th May 2017 The projector’s light flickered and finally faded to a black as the last of the credits rolled out. All of us sitting in that tent, under tarpaulin rafters with the wind zooming outside were stunned into silence. I was speechless. Spellbound. Inspired. The window pane rattled noisily and the shutter rocked back and forth, flapping with the velocity of the wind. The silence was deafening. Out of nowhere, spontaneously, our entire group of campers portrayed their admiration and awe through thunderous applause. The film ‘Poorna’ had comprised of a simple story, a young Indian girl, from a poor, superstitious and conservative family, grappling with the loss of her elder sister, the only one whom she thought she could share all her fathomless secrets with. She had had immense talent and an inherent ability to climb rocks and mountains, but had never thought of the power and strength of her hands which; coupled with the encouragement of a certain ambitious government offic