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M.S. Dhoni - The Untold Story - Review

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Once in a while, you come across a movie that inspires you to do more, to want more and to work tirelessly to achieve your goal. M.S. Dhoni is one such movie that I watched last Saturday (one day after the release) and I loved it! The story was epic and given that It was a biopic of one of the greatest players in Indian cricket, it made the movie even more captivating to watch. It showed that success is not easy to come by especially if you are from a small town with an ordinary background. However, if you really go after your goal with whatever strength you have, there is no force in the world that can stop you from achieving that goal. In extraordinary circumstances, even if you fail, you still have the learnings of your journey that would help you in the years to come. I salute the Indian skipper for having worked so hard to deserve such a title and would also like to congratulate Sushant Singh Rajput for his amazing acting and sheer show of talent that enabled the movie do justic

Sikkim - A Honeymooners' Paradise!

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Amazing, beautiful, pristine, swatchh are some of the innumerable adjectives that describe Sikkim, the Scotland of the East. It is nothing short of a paradise itself. It was March of 2016 when I began researching about the best honeymoon destinations to go by the end of April, 2016. My wedding was on the 18th of April and both Bhavya (My then fiance and now wife!) were super excited. Planning our honeymoon destination was on the top of our list. It took me several hours of googling and reviews from the good people on tripadvisor to choose Sikkim as our honeymoon destination. Now, after having been there for over a week, I am proud of making that decision. I shall try to make this post as informative as possible so that future honeymooners / tourists may benefit from it. We had taken the services of a travel agent from Kolkata and had asked him to plan an itinery for us covering Gangtok, Lachung and Pelling over a period of 6 days. The following is an account of the places we had been