UK Diaries It was a fine morning in Chennai on 05th August 2018, and my mother and brother came to the airport to give me a send-off. It was the first time my mother had ever seen an airport. It was my first international trip. Being a first-generation person from an economically humble background, I never thought I would be travelling to the UK by plane, something I never imagined I would do. As a solo traveller, I need to travel, and I've learned everything I know only from the internet and some from my friends. I might as well have no idea how I am going to manage it; I was on my 27th proposal at the time. Got selected for the Charles Wallace India Trust grand short-term research grant. We arrived at the airport at least 7 hours early. I am afraid I will not return safely after reading so much news about the plane crash. When the time neared, I started to heat up in my mind. Two days back, I wrote a letter to my brother in a diary on how to manage the world and take car...