We then made our way to the famous Sukhna Lake, and to me it was like a deja vu of the good old Carter Road in Mumbai on a Saturday evening where people would bring their families or come for an evening jog.


There was a dedicated zone for eateries with some vendors selling peanut chaat by the lakeside. There were also artists sitting on the lakefront offering to draw a sketch for couples. My husband and I appreciated the sun going down with a distant view of the Shivalik range from a bench. We then thought of reliving some of our childhood memories with our parents where we’d go boating at pretty much any destination we travelled to within India. Hence we hired a pedal boat for 30 minutes and floated around the lake trying not to band into the jovial Sardarjis along with their families all around us. It was a quintessential Indian thing to do of the 90s but it did bring us immense joy.