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The feeling of Indian temples can be explained only by their food.

Kathirvelan from reception wanted to go home due to a death in his family, he needed an advance but was denied. He called Swami in the Kitchen asking for some cash. Swami asked everyone, I gave 200 while Raghu gave a 100.  Any organisation can be a success only when its employees take ownership of the business or consider the company's vision as theirs, else it would just be a political war with the company as a country, for example.  Our guest in 111 from Palakkad, who worked in the gulf, has come for a vacation with his wife and two kids. Today, he called asking if he could get ragi porridge since his little girl wasn't keeping well, they had the ragi flour. I checked with the chef if i could make it, he agreed. I went up and got the flour and asked the chef if I could make it too? I grew up eating ragi porridge for breakfast almost every day since childhood and I bet I am good at preparing. The chef simply noded a go-ahead. For a moment, it took me to my days in Bangalore w...

To see a future, I was afraid of becoming one among them.

My name is Akarshan Devanand, I am a passionate traveller with a heart for motorcycles. I love exploring my Life, enjoy whatever life had in for me, the love for my country, to explore the art of living from its people, places and to relish the spices of delicacy from all around the corners. I worked at call centres for pocket money during college, later I started working in the recruitment industry with my good friend Abhinandan, then a vacation rental website Tripvillas. Unable to find a joy in what I wanted to do forever, I used to quit in less than 6 months. That's when an intuition hit me saying I did not belong there. I decided to follow my instinct and live the dream of my life, to travel across India on my 1971 Jawa (which is still in the garage) for the next 3 years to put myself to test and to understand how it feels to be on the road without money for a adventure of my lifetime. I grew up in Coorg and Ooty, always surrounded by nature and smiling people but over the yea...