ABOUT SANDEEP

 

"Till 2005, while in US, my faith in technology, and modern economics had promised a lot to my wisdom about a better world than what had been left behind in India. But its contradictions triggered some introspection.

I had grown up in an environment, where our family didn’t wait for life and death to hoard and then give up. But I had left that loop when a different quest of opportunities took hold on a young mind. I too followed the best known educational path which ultimately took me to the US.

 

Then monetary ease and addition to consumption, combined with a loss of connect to higher consciousness, led to questions , from the limitations posed by laws of thermodynamics, to the utility of many objects as unreal as money in improving the planet and the theories in function, to the value of love and nature. So I had to leave that loop too.

Came back to India, roamed around, lived with monks, tribal and utterly poor or rather impoverished 

folks.  Realized we are oblivious to the vast treasure trove of knowledge that got hidden by our own limitations to see it.

After some time, I settled in one such remote tribal village with my family.  We enabled forests to regrow, and did many such works to make physical time meaningful.

 

It took a few more years to learn from senses, overcoming the barriers imposed by the set learning system. Now I could see why a plant becomes happy when touched in a particular manner by a tribal woman, while all my physical help to the plant failed.  Here was a treasure trove of uncaptured, unwritten knowledge and wisdom. Once again I traveled across the country, Himalayas , Ganges, worked with communities  and saw the same latent wisdom, losing expression fast , but yet all pristine and powerful.

 

Yet, each day I feared that one day, this all will be destroyed. The same tribal woman will lose that touch and throw that plant as useless. Technology , economics and thirst for resources was forcing its way rapidly.

 

All this while , I explored deeply at Philosophical level, yet nothing was in sight.

 

Then magically, first nature gave me gurus, started showing that a different world exists, and mostly in momentary flashes. And then human gurus appeared in different moments and forms, that kept lifting me whenever a thought would get stuck.

This is the magic of Consciousness.

 Now I feel a connected and continuing consciousness that will guide us to a better world, as long we truly want it.”

 

Past Journey:

Sandeep was born at Bhopal and educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He was awarded for academic excellence by Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee.  

He worked for ten years in the corporate world, serving industry giants such as IOC, Infosys, Cognizant Technologies and Franklin Templeton India.  He worked on large projects like merger of Franklin Templeton and then demerger of American Express. In the course of his career,  he lived in many countries, and was head of Strategy, Asia in Franklin Templeton Investments, when he chose an alternative path.

Since last 17 years, he has lived in forests and worked with tribal communities, understanding the loss of ecology and solutions. Simultaneously, he worked on raising food forests, named Aranyaani, which works on a large network and area. 

He saw my business models being challenged by entrenched interests and destroyed too. That lead to writing a highly acclaimed book in 2011, written over a seven-year period , “The diary of a Snake Charmer”, available online free and otherwise on most channels free.

He lives on a dense forest in a small village named Chedka, located near Satpura National Park in central India, about 130 kms from Bhopal.

He has also worked in different parts of country, working with many institutions and communities, including those at the economic brink, to build a transparent, sustainable path.

Apart from a series of forests named Aranyaani, he is now building Ganga Project platform, along with linking it to Blockchain and Digital tokens. Many renowned business and social leaders, regularly consult him for his views.

Ganga project works are now going on in Himachal, Uttarakhand at high altitudes, in 40 villages in MP, Maharashtra and in UP, also in association with Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan- IIT Kanpur.

 In extension of the work to raise the nation on a new path, another program ‘Nav Bharat Abhiyan’ is being run, in order to make people realize that a more equitable, sustainable, and just society is possible only if we go back to harnessing the civilizational and cultural wisdom.