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The Hindu
The Hindu
Lifestyle
Srinivasa Ramanujam

‘Slept in the car, bathed at petrol bunks’: Meet India’s first ‘van family’, on a 100-day all-India tour

Like other children his age, four-year-old Abijosh might not be able to reel off all the capitals of Indian states.

But he has already done something that his peers might not do in their entire lifetime: visit 28 Indian states and 4 union territories.

Abijosh - along with his parents, Ashok B and Prabha Ashok - embarked on an all-India tour in January, and have already covered the length and breadth of the country. All this, within 100 days, in a new car that covered 15,000-plus kilometres, thus living up to the description they give themself: 'India's first van life family.'

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