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The Kumaon hills are proving to be a viable option to reboot and relocate

Social lives are more active and people are more involved in each other's lives in Kumaon than in the cities

A gathering of aspiring writers at Chetan Mahajan’s (far right) Himalayan Writing Retreat
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A gathering of aspiring writers at Chetan Mahajan’s (far right) Himalayan Writing Retreat

Anjuli Bhargava
In 2014, Chetan Mahajan’s life was progressing on an envied path. He had a good corporate job with HCL Learning. His wife, Vandita, ran her own practice in clinical psychology from home. Their children attended Gurugram’s reputed Shikshantar school. They lived in a nice house in the gated community, Nirvana Country. To all appearances, a perfect life.

Yet the couple was not happy. They worried about the influences their small children had to fight off in chaotic, rootless Gurguram — the pollution, the traffic, the aggression... “Disaffection from city life was rising,” explains Mahajan. He says he often felt “disengaged” with

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