Nepal was my first foreign trip: Bachchan

Keeping the Nepal quake victims in his prayers, megastar Amitabh Bachchan remembered his first trip to the Himalayan country in 1954, which was also his maiden visit to a foreign nation.The 72-year-old actor said during his growing years Nepal was a dream geographical location and even though it was a foreign land, it had 'several universal qualities with India'.'I visited Nepal in 1954. We were still living in Allahabad.Babuji had desired a meeting with some of his very close literary contemporaries. We flew from Patna airport to Kathmandu, the Capital of Nepal, in a twin engined propeller Dakota aircraft, that warhorse of the WW 2 era, and perhaps those that have interest in aeronautics, the most sturdy and long lasting aircraft to date,' Bachchan recalled in his blog.The grave tragedy in Nepal, continues to haunt our minds, hearts and thoughts.