Movies like “Zindagi Na MilegiDobara” have helped to
popularize international travel. It is no longer the very rich that travel
abroad. There are many affordable tour packages. Lots of people you know are
travelling to Phuket, Mali and Turkey among other places.
Newspapers regularly have articles written by journalists
who were invited to different countries by tourism boards.
Sekar
Vijay Kiran has travelled to several countries on business and has studied
the local customs and traditions. He feels that he has so much to learn about
the world.
Reading about Kilimanjaro is very different from being
there. Nature has the power to delight you if you’re open to it. You can see
your school geography textbooks come alive in front of you.
Travel and reading expand your mental horizons. Travel has
been considered an essential part of education for centuries. It changes you in
ways that you wouldn’t notice immediately, opines Vijay Kiran Sekar.
It’s important to learn how life is lived in other
countries. For instance, we can learn about efficient waste disposal instead of
continuing to burn garbage every day. It’s a common sight to see people not
cleaning after their pets on our roads. Vijay Sekar kiran whose
responsibility is it to clean dog poo? Well, in some parts of the world, pet
owners are fined if they don’t dispose of their pets’ droppings.
For years we’ve been hearing some of our politicians talk
about modeling our cities on Singapore. Others would like to emulate Shanghai.
These are not bad ideas. It gives us all hope that things will change for the
better in Bangalore.
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