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  • 21 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi, Telugu; learning Marathi (Marāṭhī), Portuguese
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Doctor by degree, Farmer by interest,Learner by Curiosit...
  • MBBS MBA (The Personal )
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About Me

I am a doctor but I don't practice formal medicine in a hospital or clinic right now.

I am a quarter acre Farmer,

Now working on

One...Primary Education
Two....Preventive healthcare
Three.Natural Farming

After doing my graduation and lot of experimentation with Farming , Travelling , Volunteering , Cooking ,Architechture , Business ,
I have experienced 2 things.
1. Common sense is not common practice
2.Academic knowledge builds stress,
Practice relieves it.

I ll listen to you when we meet.
I love to meet people from different

1.Culture,
2.Region
3 Religion
4.Profession
5.Gender
6.Age group.
7.pending for now..

As we may rarely learn from people who are like us ,still we prefer to spend with like minded people.

I am calm and easy going person open to all ideas,People .

I love to learn new things from my friends and thus Couch surfing is a platform to do that.

'Travel to learn and learn to travel' is my motto
in the beginning.Now I feel
'Travel to unlearn and unlearn to travel '

Why I’m on Couchsurfing


Couchsurfing is all about Trust and Couchsurfers are ambassadors for that,what you give to the society it returns back,thats what i believe.

I want to experience the place as it is and interact with the the locals .Couch surfing actually helps us to know the real experience of travelling .
so travelling is not about places but it is about people their life style ,their experiences and me being in a position to know and experience them.

Couch surfing helps to bring together all the like minded people thought they have diverse interests .They seem like minded but they are diverse .

Interests

I tried quite a few..

Farming is my second love.

Reading.
.I read when I feel bad , I read when I feel good , So basically I read.
When you host me you I am going to ask your 5 book recommendations for me, so keep a note.

Psychology.
.Why people do what they do ?

Cooking..
I can teach you south Indian and also few exotic dishes.

I love to Listen to people and their Stories as everyone has a story to share.

I got so interested in Listening , we opened a Backpacker Hostel in Hyderabad and even hosted people in our hostel.

I do Farming,

I try what ever excites me .

I learned ..

Farming from Masanobu Fukuoka,

Cooking from Jamie Oliver,

Psychology from Steven Pinker and Paul Ekmann.

Build houses from Jon Jandai.

Business from Tim Feriss and Josh Kaufman.

I do have basic Skill sets to survive ..

1.Grow food and Cook it.
2.Take care of your Health
3.Build a cozy Earth house.
4.Connect to people.
5.Learning to make trendy Clothes.
6.Earn some money so I did a Personal MBA
so I can share these when ever we meet.

Spending Time with children..
1.Learning something from them
2.Teaching what ever they are interested
in.

l love listening to people and their experiences.

  • books
  • cooking
  • gardening
  • reading
  • traveling
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music..

Jazz and Reggae.
Cuban cafe music.
Tamil and Malayalam songs.

Movies..

Into the Wild
Forest Gump.
City of God.
Inside out,
127 hours
Charlie @Malayalam

Books..

The Art of Non-Conformity.

The Power of habit.

What doctors don't get to study in Medical School.

Thinking fast and Slow

The Personal MBA.

Bhagawadgeetha.

4 Hour work Week.

Rich Dad poor Dad.

Perfect Health Diet.

One Straw Revolution.

Ayurveda..Science of Self Healing

Start with Why ?

5 AM Club.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's quite a few, So please bare with me..

Stayed with KHASI TRIBAL PEOPLE in a North eastern village for 3 weeks.If you may wish you can also, they have a winter Camp every January.Let me know.

Taught how to make SPANISH OMLETTE to a Nepali woman at her small cafe in HIMACHAL for which we were offered free Lunch to me and my friend.

CAMPED in a QUECHUA tent in the midnight besides a river in HIMACHAL PRADESH and found it to be a public park the next morning when we woke up.

Slept in a traditional EARTHEN HIMALAYAN HOUSE at the house of a school principal in a rural village in Almora district, UTTARAKHAND.

Got lost in travelling and opened a Backpacker hostel named Bonjour in Hyderabad.

Travelled around 1500 Kms for 15 days on the bike with a Couchsurfer whom I hosted ,across Uttarakhand from East to West.

Learned to build EARTHEN HOUSES from the Ted talk speaker JONJANDAI in Thailand and lived with their community for 2 weeks.

Got interested in FARMING, now working on making a FRUIT FOREST in the QUARTER ACRE and living on it in our hometown.

Fell in LOVE with my Nephew who is 3 year old now and started learning a lot from him and became a huge fan of him.He is a teacher for me right now.

.
Waking up at before the SUN and waiting for the day from past 5 months
.
Learned and practiced SUNGAZING from a fellow Couchsurfer.

Had MIDDAY MEAL with school children in a rural village in karnataka
on the way to HAMPI.

Accidentally came across a South Indian family living in Dharavi and ended up going to their home and they even offering breakfast for me and my friend.

Got crazy about Ted talks and watched 100 TED TALKS in 3 days.

My first Couchsurfing host and the food he prepared , traditional KERALA RED RICE with homemade curries, Still a sweet memory , the chat we had on his Terrous about Kerala cultures,relations and all.

Most of the above things are free.
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE ALWAYS FREE,
that's what I have experienced.

Still more to share...

Teach, Learn, Share

A wise Couchsurfer mentioned on her profile
Teach yourself ,learn from others and share with the world
I cannot teach you
i guess, but I can just guide you on..

1.How to make or break habits as I have done an extensive experimentation on me for more than 3 years

2. How to take care of your health without any medicines.

3.How can u grow more in less space your home ,balconies

4.Cooking..some indian dishes..even some foreign dishes..

5.Basics of Hatha Yoga,Sun gazing.

6.Minimalism @ Home & travel
Budget backpacking , Hitch hiking,Trekking

Learn.. from you People

New languages..Indian and Foreign

Cooking..Indian cuisines

Musical instrument..Ukulele or guitar

Share..

What ever you are interested and which I can.

What I learned on couchsurfing??

As we are all same but still we are not the same.So I like to see the oneness in diversity and diversity in the oneness.
Travelling and meeting new people helps a lot to know about ourself.
Couchsurfing is a good platform for that.

I learned ..

1.Living simply.. is the biggest contribution that i can do to the nature..i can understand more with time

2.Living with nature..would help to know about ourselves..

3.Being humble and kind

4.Being patient

5.Opened myself to different ideas

6.Breaking my beliefs by meeting
people.

What I Can Share with Hosts

You can stay with me in Hyderabad or my home which is 4 hour drive from Hyderabad. I live in the outskirts of a small town, where you can experience the village living.
If you can come , we can host you at our home.
You can stay with me at our learning centre in Hyderabad.
My home food,my friends and interactions and pleasant and memorable trip to my place.

Countries I’ve Lived In

India

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