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IN THE SUMMER TIME...

Summer is here and while the city sweats it out, Dhaval Roy speaks to the TV stars who take a trip down memory lane to their best summer holiday

"In the summer time when the weather is fine, you could stretch right up and touch the sky..." as goes the Shaggy song. It's the time for light summer clothing, beaches, sun tan lotion, lots of ales and ice cream and for a summer holiday too! But given the hectic schedules, our TV stars may not find themselves indulging in this luxury often now. However, they remember the carefree times they have spent during summer as kids.
For Naman Shaw, Pushkar of Kasamh Se, it was Nepal calling, as he went on a holiday in Kathmandu. "My most memorable trip was right after my ICSE board exams. My dad had sponsored a trip for me and a couple of my friends to Kathmandu. The hotel where we stayed had a casino, and my dad was a gold member of that hotel, so we got a Rs 10,000 worth voucher to play at the casino. This was the first time that I went to a casino ever. The food and beverages there were free, so all we did was sit in there all day, eat and play. Even better, I won a lot of money, so I went and shopped a lot," he laughs, adding, "I used to go out for a summer vacation every year with my parents, but this was a lot of fun because I went out for the first time with my friends alone. So, we were more carefree." Like Naman, for another youngster Raj Singh Arora, Yuvi of Remix, the best holiday was abroad too, in the beautiful locales of Russia. Raj's father being in nuclear submarine in Russia, Raj spent a few years in that country. "If I go down memory lane, the schooling in Russia was very different from India. Before I joined a boarding school in India, I went for this 10-day school summer camp and I had probably the best time of my life. It was full of sports activities, hovercraft rides, games, and yes, beautiful Russian girls! Let's not get into all the naughty stuff I have done there," he giggles, "Even thought I was only six, the entire trip is very fresh in my mind." While Naman and Raj went to exotic places for their summer trips, Rakshanda Khan
didn't find herself going to many exciting places for her summer trips but they have been exciting enough for her because she went with a huge gang of cousins and family. "I used to be really scared of horses, and on one trip I ventured be be brave enough and ride a horse. This was in Matheran, and as you know there are a lot of monkeys there. So, I was sitting on a horse and my camera fell from my hand, and a monkey ran away with it," she laughs. But the trip had a happy ending for her as , "I didn't fall and got carried away by a monkey and I got my camera back in one piece too. But more importantly, I was in one piece."