by Shantanu | Jan 6, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Outdoor Leadership, Outdoors & Insights
Risk Management is often just doing the right thing at the right time. “Why do people live in cages here?” This question was by an American, a fellow NOLS instructor, who was visiting me in Mumbai. Most if not all flats in Mumbai and its suburbs (and I guess in all...
by Shantanu | Jan 4, 2021 | Consultancy Services
Do that thing that we fear and the death of fear is certain – Ralph Waldo Emerson This post is about intense fear – that raw, mind numbing feeling that leads to total paralysis. The one time I have experienced it was also when I was fortunate to have been able to...
by Shantanu | Dec 30, 2020 | Pundit – Fun & Time-pass!
Mistik & Intrigue! When discussing the frequency of posts on Instagram with my friend Amit Khanolkar I said to him how I’m going to try for one post every Wednesday, and he said he has been told by his media consultant that Wednesday posts have maximum...
by Shantanu | Dec 23, 2020 | Outdoor Skills
A dry sleeping bag is akin to a bed of roses! As the end of the year draws nigh, people get busy with various kinds of preparations… and outdoors people are wont to plan quiet getaways to spend happy times in nature’s lap. No matter how 2020 has been, winter can be a...
by Shantanu | Dec 7, 2020 | Experiential Education
* Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them. (LNT Principle) * Making their way up a stream in the local hills one day, my son and his friend had suddenly come upon a python lying in a small puddle in the stream. Had he been looking somewhere...
