India, Nov. 6 -- When Ambassador Monica Mohta finished her tenure in the Indian Foreign Service, she thought she would put her feet up and relax, or do things she had been unable to during her whirlwind career. Having spent most of her life abroad and heading missions-be it in Poland, Switzerland and Sweden-it was time to explore the country she was born and brought up in; a country wherein she grew up and one where she had been instilled a value system which weaved in tradition and culture; a country which she belongs to: India.

"I would," she said to herself, "travel and explore every nook and corner, seep in the smell of the soil and soak in its monsoons: all that I had missed in my working years."

But could this be without a purpose...