A talk session was held at Eklavya Foundation on Sunday. During the session, a book Ahad Gao Pahad Gao, published by Eklavya was also released.
The special speaker from Nepal Iih interacted with the audience during the session. Iih shared his travel story and experiences with the audience.
He has traveled thousands of kilometers without any message and purpose. One of these was the padyatra from Kargil to Kanyakumari. Between 2015 and 2022, Iih walked across Nepal three and a half times through different geographical belts, across India - from Kargil in Ladakh, to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, and across Sri Lanka - from Jaffna to Dondra, covering over 13,000 Kilometers in the process in these various uninterrupted walks across South Asia.
He has documented these walks through pictures and journal accounts, some of which are available on his Instagram - iihgram. He published a limited run hardcopy of his accounts from Nepal to crowdsource the walks across India and Sri Lanka. He looks forward to walk across Bangladesh as well this monsoon. The walks have been a medium to connect people across boundaries.
He said that while walking he has met thousands of people. People talk to him very lovingly. Come forward to help. He has also traveled through many states of India and out of these he enjoys traveling and meeting people in Madhya Pradesh.
Eklavya's book Ahad Go Pahad Go is a compilation of Bundelkhandi folktales. This compilation is done by writer and teacher Manoj Sahu Nidar. About 50 people were present in this programme.