Pipilika

22/12/2024

A FEW MONTHS AGO, I went to the outskirts of Mumbai to a place called Vasai, where there stood the ruins of a fort that was once the epicen­tre of the Portuguese presence in India. The fort had been indomitable because it introduced a new equation into the subcontinent: sea power. Border­ing the A...

15/12/2024

We still have room for you :)

Write to Ekta (number below) to register.

After a really long time, Tautik and i am gearing up for an intensive workshop on travel, where we shall be sharing all that the road has taught us.

Here is an introductory session to know what's in store :)

Write to Ekta (number on the poster) to know more.

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About Tautik

Tautik is passionate about inspiring people to travel — to travel long-term, to travel frugally, to take that long journey into oneself. A fauji kid, Tautik has grown up across India attending nine different schools/institutes. A 4-month long road trip across India turned out to be a seminal moment for him. He changed over from being a Management Consultant for the corporate world to one who works towards generating livelihoods with non-profit organizations. He feels alive on the road. Tautik has swum with the hammerhead sharks in Galapagos, travelled in a boat along the Amazons from Colombia to Brazil, slept with the homeless in Argentina, driven an old motorcycle (a La Poderosa II) across Bhutan, feasted with strangers in Iran, camped alongside a glacier in Chile, and lived with the tribal of Central India. Travel, he says, helped him appreciate minimalism. When all his needs fit neatly into a backpack, all the stuff back home quickly became redundant. He believes in the philosophy of an impermanent home. At present, you can find him dwelling in a small village in the Central Himalayas.

About Deepa

Deepa has been traveling since her first pay cheque (2003) and exploring themes around- slow- green- minimal- solo- frugal- volunteer- gratitude journeys. She loves living long term in places to soak the daily local life- culture and forge lifelong friendships. These include many summers in Ladakh and winters in North East, hitchhiking through Iran, taking the road from India- South-east Asia, crossing the highest non motorable pass of the world on foot (twice) in Nepal, walking the Dandi march and cycling through India without phone and money and more. She recently lived in Brazil for a year without money, exchanging skills for food and board.
Travel, she says, has taught her the power of less and being more.
With (almost) no fixed base she lives with whoever houses her, expanding her definition of home, friends and family.
She is also the founder of (inter) nationally acclaimed alternative initiatives in: gift culture, zero waste lifestyle, flow funds, reclaiming your food, living a self designed- intentional life etc.
More can be read about her life- work- travels in this profile link https://tinyurl.com/v9nwba2

14/12/2024

Via

The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce the 2nd edition of the Walking BookFairs Travel Writing Festival in association with and

A one-of-its-kind independent literature festival in India that celebrates travel literature and the spirit of travelling. This year we will travel on a train from Bhubaneswar to Puri with intrepid travellers, dreamers, artists, writers and readers in this unique celebration of travel, adventure, exploration and literature. With insightful sessions, fun activities and a curated selection of travel books, this day-long festival promises to be a treat for readers, writers and adventurers alike.

🗓️14 December 2024
🚂Bhubaneswar-Puri-Bhubaneswar

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12/12/2024

Want to work in Andamans this winters? :D

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Original Message

An acquaintance is looking for a community coordinator (in waste awareness & management) in Andamans for Dec-April. 25k stipend + 10k rent allowance + 4k island transport every month
+ 20k (reimbursement) for travel from mainland

Need to be sensitive to the community's culture. Can't wear shorts, smoke, drink in public around work & community folks. Role involves working with women and children.

If can do documentation as well, then + 12k per month.

She is looking to fill this role ASAP as the person in this role is leaving due to a medical emergency.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FwRLZeQbwMFWO11YxoXyUgkLVp4fjmmL/view?usp=share_link

09/12/2024

After a really long time, Tautik and i am gearing up for an intensive workshop on travel, where we shall be sharing all that the road has taught us.

Here is an introductory session to know what's in store :)

Write to Ekta (number on the poster) to know more.

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About Tautik

Tautik is passionate about inspiring people to travel — to travel long-term, to travel frugally, to take that long journey into oneself. A fauji kid, Tautik has grown up across India attending nine different schools/institutes. A 4-month long road trip across India turned out to be a seminal moment for him. He changed over from being a Management Consultant for the corporate world to one who works towards generating livelihoods with non-profit organizations. He feels alive on the road. Tautik has swum with the hammerhead sharks in Galapagos, travelled in a boat along the Amazons from Colombia to Brazil, slept with the homeless in Argentina, driven an old motorcycle (a La Poderosa II) across Bhutan, feasted with strangers in Iran, camped alongside a glacier in Chile, and lived with the tribal of Central India. Travel, he says, helped him appreciate minimalism. When all his needs fit neatly into a backpack, all the stuff back home quickly became redundant. He believes in the philosophy of an impermanent home. At present, you can find him dwelling in a small village in the Central Himalayas.

About Deepa

Deepa has been traveling since her first pay cheque (2003) and exploring themes around- slow- green- minimal- solo- frugal- volunteer- gratitude journeys. She loves living long term in places to soak the daily local life- culture and forge lifelong friendships. These include many summers in Ladakh and winters in North East, hitchhiking through Iran, taking the road from India- South-east Asia, crossing the highest non motorable pass of the world on foot (twice) in Nepal, walking the Dandi march and cycling through India without phone and money and more. She recently lived in Brazil for a year without money, exchanging skills for food and board.
Travel, she says, has taught her the power of less and being more.
With (almost) no fixed base she lives with whoever houses her, expanding her definition of home, friends and family.
She is also the founder of (inter) nationally acclaimed alternative initiatives in: gift culture, zero waste lifestyle, flow funds, reclaiming your food, living a self designed- intentional life etc.
More can be read about her life- work- travels in this profile link https://tinyurl.com/v9nwba2

02/12/2024

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head. I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

-Anthony Bourdain

25/11/2024

What do you need to know about Tokyo? Deep, deep waters. The first time I came here, it was a transformative experience. It was a powerful and violent experience. It was just like taking acid for the first time—meaning, What do I do now? I see the whole world in a different way.

I often compare the experience of going to Japan for the first time, going to Tokyo for the first time, to what Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend—the reigning guitar gods of England—must have gone through the week that Jimi Hendrix came to town.
You hear about it. You go see it. A whole window opens up into a whole new thing. And you think, What does this mean? What do I have left to say? What do I do now?”

–Anthony Bourdain

19/11/2024

Hi,
How are you?

I have been attempting to live this lifestyle for 20+ years and have been sharing all the breakthroughs on this forum.

To take this a step forward i am offering hand holding sessions (paid) for others to start living their travel dreams.

Here is a glimpse of the sessions.

- Planning a gap year: Taking a break from your regular life, slowing down (a lot) to experiment with other ways of living and being

- Solo travel: Learning how to travel alone, one baby step at a time

- Digital Nomad Visa: Should you get one, how to get one and what to do once you have it!

- Treat yourself to a travel story: Bhutan, Iran, Going by road from India- SouthEast Asia, many summers in Ladakh, cycling through India without phone- money, a year in Brazil and more

- Art of slow travel workshop: It's a 5.5 days intensive residential workshop where i share in-depth lived travel experiences from 20+ years as i have chosen the road as my first love- career- teacher

-कबीर मिले साइकिल पे (Meeting Kabir on a cycle): a concert based on songs of Kabir and my travel journeyshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYMm5ZfPOM

Read this google doc for more sessions related to these
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFoGVktpwKjZB-OywyF39BOn5t359475Z5bqbBNVfqU/edit?tab=t.0

Thus, if you are looking for a guide- mentor- coach for "practical" inner- outer work, pls PM/ email ([email protected]) the name of the session that interests you and I shall send you the details.

And please note the below before writing to me :)
- i am not an expert/ certified therapist/ have any degree around any of the topics below. But I have spent over 15 years executing the below “sessions” in my life. So the tips are from my personal practice which shall be tailor made for where you are right now in your journey. Of course we don't know if/ when these will work for you. Remember we are all WIP (work in progress) and continue to learn and grow at our own pace, including me!

- these sessions ARE ONLY for those who are ready to point the finger inwards i.e. want to look at their own thoughts, words and actions and are not focusing on the outside world i.e. bridging their own knowing- doing gaps!

- PLEASE go through my profile to get a thorough idea about my lifestyle and the work i offer
https://tinyurl.com/v9nwba2
Thanks for reading,

Love,
Deepa

A little bit about me
As a result of my own journey with toxic relationships and depression, I understand that a healthy relationship with the world begins with a strong connection to ourselves and community. In a culture that often fosters separation and disconnection, for over a decade I have been committed to creating a healthy culture, starting with an unwavering commitment to my own personal growth and transformation.

In order to serve me and the world with greater clarity, compassion, creativity and courage, my experiments challenge me, and invite other people to deepen the relationship they have with themselves. Many of my approaches promote actions based on love, hand-in-hand with technology, to offer slow change, one being at a time.
Over the years, my work has taken many forms ranging from hosting holistic online communities; to gratitude journeys i.e. traveling for months without phone and money to creating community terraces.

I am also the founder of acclaimed national and international ‘alternative’ initiatives, including India's biggest ‘gratitude and zero waste lifestyle forum’, and enterprises in gift culture, minimalism, slow travel, flow funds, reclaiming your food and living a self-designed, intentional life.

I have been sharing my stories- experiments- learnings in India and abroad. With (mostly) no fixed base I live with whoever houses me/ offers their house to sit, expanding the definition of home, friends and family.

As a result of my own journey with toxic relationships and depression, I understand that a healthy relationship with the world begins with a strong connection to ourselves and community. In a culture that often fosters separation and disconnection, for over a decade I have been committed to creat...

18/11/2024

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.”

–Bourdain

11/11/2024

04/11/2024

It takes courage to rest and play in a world where exhaustion is a status symbol.
~ Brene Brown

28/10/2024

Don't leave anything for later.

Later, the coffee gets cold.
Later, you lose interest.
Later, the day turns into night.
Later, people grow up.
Later, life goes by.
Later, you regret not doing something.

When you had the chance.
Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again.

Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words.

So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled.

~ from 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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21/10/2024

“I often say wealthy cultures that are lucky and fortunate and prosperous generally don’t cook very well because they never had to. It’s the countries that struggle that make the most of what they have who, over time, learned to make wonderful things.”.

- A Bourdain

15/10/2024

I took my first gap year at 29.
Instead of being a year off it became a "year on" during which i explored slow- green- solo- frugal- community based travel.
This gap year helped me create a life from which i no longer need a vacation.

As i entered the 15th year of living a self designed- intentional life, i wanted to create a list of spaces which have encouraged and shaped me.

The fabulous Vipul has done it for all of us. Here is the giant list of alternative holistic spaces in India to plan individual, family, community based gap years. We shall be adding more to it especially to the fellowship and grants section.

It's never too late to take one!

14/10/2024

One of the best book fellowships in India for non fiction.
A superb paid opportunity to pen down your travel journeys.

Applications now open! Round 12 of the NIF Book Fellowships Apply Now NIF Book Fellowships The core activity of the New India Foundation is the NIF Book Fellowships, awarded to scholars and writers working on different aspects of the history of independent India. From a large pool of several hundred...

08/10/2024

In Kolkata.
Lets meet.

Also connect me to like minded people in Shantinekatan/ Sunderbans or around.

Thank you.

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07/10/2024

Nothing is slower than the limping days
when under the heavy weather of the years
Boredom, the fruit of glum indifference,
gains the dimension of eternity . . .
—Charles Baudelaire's "Spleen"

Check out this link to send your poems on lying flat- doing nothing- living slowly!

Nothing is slower than the limping days
when under the heavy weather of the years
Boredom, the fruit of glum indifference,
gains the dimension of eternity . . .
—Charles Baudelaire's "Spleen".

More reference:https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n10704/pdf/04_op_ed_brossard.pdf
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Previously unpublished poems written in English or newly translated into English on “Lying Flat” can be sent to [email protected] before Saturday 30 November 2024 with the subject line “VV: Flat: [your initials]” for consideration. Each poet can submit up to two poems (please do not send us PDFs). Editor of the section: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.

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30/09/2024

This weekend in Orissa!
Next stop Kolkatta.

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