Narrator
Pankaj Sharma
India for Travel
New airports, better connectivity, modern highways, plush trains, beautiful new hotels in the hinterland and a technology driven new ecosystem governing everyday life, all this is giving travelling in India a new dimension. More than ever, it’s now possible to travel comfortably and safely in the deep interiors and remote frontiers of the great geographical stretch. The many narratives and legends that we all have lived reading about in connection with India, are all possible today to somehow be relevant in each traveller’s own trails and explorations. It’s an exciting time to live in the storybook of your own, involve with something fantastic in India, unmindful of what everything else in the world is doing. India is rapidly changing
Happy travelling!
Being insightful
Village level economies of India not just worked but they lead the way in every era in ensuring that India survives to live another day. Barring some commodities like the common salt, the villages have been largely sustaining themselves on their own. It’s akin to living alone in a civilization full of close to a million similar villages like yours. Our respected poet Tagore who also wrote our National anthem expressed in one poem that When no one comes with you then walk alone. This also would mean that when wind is not blowing your way, even then live for another day to catch the breeze of the beautiful tomorrow. Sustainability is the new buzzword in the era of clear risk of Mother Earth reaching a tipping point and the World of Travelling is no exception. There are so many pleasures which have become completely unsustainable. The pleasures that give little time to Mother Earth to heal back. For a change how about going places where no one misses you but they are warm to you when you arrive. Being part of things and activities that heal back on their own? In a way India’s villages hold this secret. They have sustained various times without needing much. Now they are even ticking all the right boxes of being on solar power, organic growing, adaptive technologies, slow food, climate friendly architecture, local cooperatives and vocal for local; just about everything the world is shouting about. They also are on route to some of the most incredible landscapes, wildernesses, wildlife and ancient ruins. There is a point.
Earth Conscious Travel discussion
Tourism Operators as stakeholders in emerging responsible behaviours
We are eager to take some little steps in doing our work in more meaningful way
and be of even more valuable assistance in an explorer’s needs to travel, be entertained and socialise. We always wish to share what we are thinking and implementing in our field as the possible Ways Forward towards more responsible behaviour in relation to the challenge of climate crisis. Challenges to the earth & the societies are clearly visible. Everything must change for the better in response to this age of great uncertainties in climate,
unpredictability of natural events and cruel abuse of natural resources. If this will not force us to change our actions then probably nothing can. Ignorance breeds irresponsible actions. Our actions have to shift to knowing and preserving our beautiful home known as Earth. As Travel Operators, we might not attempt to shame the world in actions. But we can inspire many through responsible actions. As humans, we only preserve what we feel good about. As much as its possible for us we try to involve everyone we know in the following
Support hotels and places of stay which adopt sustainable practices,
Exercise the activities which help bring communities closer in highlighting and sharing the best and the most sensible practices and
Planting new trees. We take this activity with vigor in the monsoon period so that the plants naturally survive. Our team also ensures proper care and growth of such plantation. The passion has extended to growing rare millets and vegetables in organic way and those are now served to our visitors in the Haveli.
It’s important to know that all over India there are several individual actions which need to be highlighted and be connected. Those who are relied upon for creating travel itineraries are in
the best position to help make these responsible actions gain the mainstream. There is a word in Hindi spelled as ‘Navachaar’, which means ‘inspiring new behaviours’. Our objective through our actions is to
bring forward such behaviours. Our own new endeavours are about ‘restore, revive and reuse’ on which we’ll have a lot to talk about in the time to come.