Q. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Travel is a bug that was
in me when I was bom, probably inherited from my father. In 24 years of travelling widely through
India, I have been most fascinated by those little islands that dot the Bay of Bengal off the East Coast
of India. Yes, I am talking about the Andaman Islands. Andamans somehow seemed almost sinister,
with images of being haunted, bleak and scary, until my parents actually returned from a trip to Port
Blair and told us about these serene islands. We immediately awaited the first opportunity to take a
break and check them out. Finally, the D-Day came and we were all ready. We boarded the aircraft
and to our surprise found that there were several empty seats. On enquiry, we learnt that all supplies
to the Andamans including newspaper and meat go from the mainland and so there is always more
cargo and less people.Port Blair airport is a small, old airport that was constructed in 1947. On my way
to the hotel I noticed that there are none of the usual auto rickshaws that noisily wend their way
through most Indian towns. There was only one traffic signal in the entire town and the roads were
more ups-and-downs than level. This was all surprising for a person like me who has lived in the
coastal towns of Chennai and Mumbal.The colour of the sea was an unpolluted blue, a colour that!
had not seen in any of the beaches in India. It was calm and beautiful. I was thrilled with the fact that
we were going to spend 10 entire days there. All we had to do was sit in the open restaurant, look at
the sea, enjoy the cool breeze and feel good. The Andaman Islands are a group of several Islands, so
most of our sightseeing was by boats. There are a total of more than 356 Islands there. Even the
oldest boatman, Rathnam, had seen only 200 of them. I figured that 10 days was surely not enough to
get a full picture of this place, so I started to store every sight, every sound and every smell. The
sound and light show at the jail sent a shiver down my spine. (This trip was before the movie
Kalapani' was released). The realisation that those who fought for our Independence had lived,
struggled, suffered and even died here left an impact
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