A real globetrotter


As I was going though the archived photos in my computer, I have sen this photo and should tell about this interesting gentleman here.He must be a septuagenarian.I met him along with my friend on a hot “Sun”day last year at the Point Cruz area in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Both me and my friend were surprised to see an authentically dressed Indian clad in Dhoti and Kurta in this part of the world were Indian Indians( this is how the FBIs- Fijian born-Indians were differentiated from Indians from India) are very rare to be seen. We approached him, greeted with Namaste and started picking up a conversation with him. When I asked “Sir , where are you from?” the reply came that he is from India( West Bengal) and reached Solomon Islands as he was hopping!!! different countries. His reply has changed my paradigm on travelling as a need to travelling as a passion.

It was amazing when he shown us a handwritten note which has a detailed study of history, Geography, culture, tradition, current affairs, facts and figures about each country in his itinerary. Travelling is his passion and he has travelled around 85 countries of the world just for the purpose of visiting and still continuing. He said, every year he travels twice out of India to cover more than a country during each visit and what is great about him is his desire to travel 15 more countries to make the number of countries visited to touch 100 and said he is praying God to give him a healthy life for another 5 years to reach his goal.

I always feel travelling to an unfamiliar destination very interesting and it imparts a huge load of information and knowledge what reading volumes and volumes of books, browsing hours and hours on the net cannot do. When it is not an urgent trip, I always like to reach my destination through a lengthy, time consuming route with stopovers in between. Many of us are sceptic about travelling to unfamiliar places with many pre assumed thoughts, though we want to travel. But this respectable Gentleman, regardless of his age and physical condition is passionate to travel to countries where he could hardly find his fellow countrymen, his favourite foods, medical assistance or for that matter a Diplomatic mission of his country to assist him is case of an emergency.

While I am writing about him, I am sure he should be enjoying his passion in some corner of the world and May God bless him a healthy life to explore a bunch of unseen lands.

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