Sachin Chhachhia
I am one human among 7 billion others. I have lived almost 24 years of my life by now, studying, working, traveling, and doing all common things like everybody else does. But Everything I have done was more of an attempt to survive. And I realize I cannot continue my life in same style anymore.
For the past 2 years, I have been traveling on and off across India, and Nepal in an attempt to understand human, and environment. And I have this feeling we are living in the two-tier world undermined by inequalities, ravaged by conflicts. Human species have spent more than 200000 years on earth, yet we are incapable of living together.
Today, on behalf of the child that I was a decade ago, I want to ask a simple question to myself, and to everybody else...Why? Why do we continue to make the same mistakes. I don't find answers in numbers, statistics, institutions, religions, but in human and nature itself.
I look for answers in the eyes, and faces of people, which reflect their inner soul. There is nothing more compelling than looking into someone's eyes, and listen to their life stories. Every new encounter takes us a step forward to the connection, to the love, to the truth. Every story is unique in a way, and all these stories make me wonder. Do we all aspire for the same love, freedom, and recognition. How we define it. In a world divided by so many differences, what does it mean to be human. What is the meaning of life. What is love. Are our differences so huge. Do we not share the same values than we think. Is culture so diverse to worth fighting for, and against. I want to ask all these questions.
Perhaps this is the craziest challenge for a 24 year young man like me, but if i don't take this challenge perhaps nobody else will take this. So, I plan to take my diary, pen, paint, and camera along with few basic amenities needed for survival, and ride the bicycle across the Indian subcontinent, a total distance of 25000 Km. I plan to ride across every Indian state, and the Union Territories covering most debated places, and the places which have never been mentioned in the history books.
During the entire journey, I plan to speak to more than 2000+ people, conducting 1000 of interviews, and so many stories. I plan to have conversations with people we talk about, and people we never talk about, people who share their story for the first time.
I want to detach these men, and women from the places they live in, focusing on their faces, and words they speak. Imagining India, where its beauty resonates through their voices. This ride offers a journey through vast landscapes, great Indian oceans, rainforests, sun covered mountains, great Indian deserts, but above all the Individuals human stories.
During this trip, I plan to transcript all these voices, without any editing. I plan to talk intensely about some universal political issues like poverty, religion, immigration, education, discrimination against women, caste, homophobia etc.
I plan to talk everything with these men and women I am going to meet on the road. Difficulties of growing up without love, and happiness. It is the wealth of their voices that defines this long, tiring, and near to death journey, and not my individual hardship which I am going to face to complete this longest ride of 25000 Kms.
For the past 2 years, I have been traveling on and off across India, and Nepal in an attempt to understand human, and environment. And I have this feeling we are living in the two-tier world undermined by inequalities, ravaged by conflicts. Human species have spent more than 200000 years on earth, yet we are incapable of living together.
Today, on behalf of the child that I was a decade ago, I want to ask a simple question to myself, and to everybody else...Why? Why do we continue to make the same mistakes. I don't find answers in numbers, statistics, institutions, religions, but in human and nature itself.
I look for answers in the eyes, and faces of people, which reflect their inner soul. There is nothing more compelling than looking into someone's eyes, and listen to their life stories. Every new encounter takes us a step forward to the connection, to the love, to the truth. Every story is unique in a way, and all these stories make me wonder. Do we all aspire for the same love, freedom, and recognition. How we define it. In a world divided by so many differences, what does it mean to be human. What is the meaning of life. What is love. Are our differences so huge. Do we not share the same values than we think. Is culture so diverse to worth fighting for, and against. I want to ask all these questions.
Perhaps this is the craziest challenge for a 24 year young man like me, but if i don't take this challenge perhaps nobody else will take this. So, I plan to take my diary, pen, paint, and camera along with few basic amenities needed for survival, and ride the bicycle across the Indian subcontinent, a total distance of 25000 Km. I plan to ride across every Indian state, and the Union Territories covering most debated places, and the places which have never been mentioned in the history books.
During the entire journey, I plan to speak to more than 2000+ people, conducting 1000 of interviews, and so many stories. I plan to have conversations with people we talk about, and people we never talk about, people who share their story for the first time.
I want to detach these men, and women from the places they live in, focusing on their faces, and words they speak. Imagining India, where its beauty resonates through their voices. This ride offers a journey through vast landscapes, great Indian oceans, rainforests, sun covered mountains, great Indian deserts, but above all the Individuals human stories.
During this trip, I plan to transcript all these voices, without any editing. I plan to talk intensely about some universal political issues like poverty, religion, immigration, education, discrimination against women, caste, homophobia etc.
I plan to talk everything with these men and women I am going to meet on the road. Difficulties of growing up without love, and happiness. It is the wealth of their voices that defines this long, tiring, and near to death journey, and not my individual hardship which I am going to face to complete this longest ride of 25000 Kms.
