I have traveled to many lands, but in all my years in the bureaucracy and in politics there was one place that I never had a chance to visit. Suddenly, in May 2015, I had an irrepressible urge to fill this gap in my life and visit Sikkim—the state I had never been to. The desire was so compelling that without losing time I contacted my good friend Prem Das Rai, the Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim. P.D. and I had worked together in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and I was confident that he would not disappoint me.