People are appreciating that you did a great job, but for me, I am just a mad guy.
I am just mad about my nation.
I love my nation, I just expressed my love to my nation.
When you love someone, you will express something and you will take in action.
You will buy something for them, you will make some good food.
You will take them to good places.
Yeah, I loved my nation, so I did something for my nation, for my people.
After my third ride, ride for farmer support, I was thinking about something I wanted to do across the nation.
So I selected the topic, ride for Green India.
It's about ride for clean and green, climate change and global warming.
What is going to happen if you don't protect our nature?
No matter how much money you have, no matter how much good education you give to your children,
if you don't have proper environment, they don't survive anymore.
As part of this ride, I observed many things.
My last 20 years, my father's and grandfather's generation, there is so many things happen.
They don't need proper borewell system, not required 20 years back.
But now, even though they did so many wells, there is no water at all.
You know, you can see last 5 to 10 years, there are so many disasters happening in India.
Like, lot of lives we have seen, they have money, but they don't have proper water because they cut down all the trees.
They are facing problem. Delhi air pollution.
From Kanyakumari to Delhi, I went on bicycle and I was fine when I go to Delhi.
I spent 4 to 5 days, but I was facing breathing issues.
So this is the life incident.
If you go to Mumbai, there are so many plastic issues near to beach.
You know, Chennai flowers and Kashmir flowers, Uttarakhand flowers.
There are so many life examples we can see.
India's fourth largest city has experienced its heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years.
You know, bicycle is the only thing that will not affect environment, it's eco-friendly.
The best thing in bicycle is, no need to spend anything.
Your blood is your petrol.
Generally, bikers, okay, 1 litre, they can go 40 kilometres.
You know, cyclists, having 4 rotis, they can, you know, more than 100 kilometres, they can pedal.
That's the best thing in beauty and bicycle.
It's cost-effective, eco-friendly.
And the important thing is, it's slow.
You know, bicycle is very slow.
That you can meet lot of people and people can come and approach you.
That is the beauty of cycling.
So, every state, I decided individual videos will help to understand more and more.
And route map I prepared with help of bikers.
And I did not prepare anything for a stay.
I decided that every day I wanted to conduct one workshop, school, college, wherever it is possible.
That is my primary of the day.
And next food, I did not plan anything.
And I not used to carry anything food.
Maximum, I used to carry water and a pot.
What is your experience? I don't know where do I sleep.
6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, I will think, okay, I need to stop.
So, I'll stop somewhere at temples or any police stations, Gurudwara's, petrol ones.
But don't get anything and I look for lots.
Now, I used to have only one pair of dress.
Every day I need to wash my clothes.
I have basic medicines, projector kit and speaker.
And basic equipment of my cycle, extra tyres and extra tubes.
And I used to carry seed balls.
You know, every part of the cycle is like, I put a lot of love.
Like, a director makes a movie.
Like, every element he will touch.
You know, even it is small things, he will not compromise.
Even me also, like, I want to be perfect.
My cycle should be perfect.
Even if I go out now, like, I use the same cycle.
So, people might think differently, hey, hey, what are you doing?
But it's okay, fine.
Another person will connect, like-minded people will connect, seeing this.
There are so many people connected only because of cycle.
You know, everybody is saying like, I'm solo, I'm solo.
How do you ride without talking to people and there is nobody to...
No, that is wrong, completely wrong.
I have everyone.
You know, there are thousands of people, thousands of hearts I touch.
You know, I don't even have time for listening music for 10 minutes.
You know, every 10-15 minutes during my ride, I have to stop.
People will stop me, you know.
Otherwise, so many people just go, they will just pass my cycle and they will wait.
They will stop their vehicle and wait and they will use it to talk
and had lots of conversations with different kind of people, positive, negative.
You know, I used to tell them what I'm doing.
Now, they are very happy to see tricolours and moving cycles
and these all plants and saplings, you know, boards.
This ride is not just for kilometers, not for like 4-5 months.
I'm not worried about kilometers, whether it's 5000, 6000 or 10,000.
My intention is like reaching people, like convincing them about protecting the environment.
You know, morning I'll just wake up and I'll just freshen up and I'll just move on to road somewhere
and I'll stop for a big breakfast.
I will have a conversation with the generally local people come and ask me many questions
and I'll tell them that if you know any schools, give it to me.
I'll go and take permission and conduct. They happily took me to school and I conducted workshop.
All together, morning to night almost, I used to talk with minimum 500 people every day
and every school I used to conduct workshop with projector.
So, that's easy way to convince them.
After conducting that session, I used to ask many questions.
You know, they happily shared their express to their views.
They promised, many children promised, saying that they're not going to use plastic.
They're ready to plant trees, ready to save water.
They're ready to use their own dustbin and handkerchiefs.
So, these are the small things I conducted during my workshops.
How many people are using carry bags?
Carry bags.
No, plastic.
No, really, true.
Sure.
Even I don't want to go for big change.
I am not expecting change in everyone's.
If I can inspire one or two people out of 500, that's great.
That one or two people will inspire others.
So, I have a small goal that to meet everyone, like possible as much as I can.
So, convince about sustainable development.
You know, we need development, but that should be sustainable.
You know, travelling is the best part of my life.
You know, the Kanyakumari to Kashmir, long expedition.
I'm fortunate to meet many green champions.
The people who are doing good for society without any expectations.
We should take inspiration from them and we should take challenging work.
We should take care of our surroundings, nature.
This will reflect your children's future, no matter how much you earn.
Without nature, you can't leave.
During my ride, I observed many things.
There are so many people who shared their views.
They are accepting change.
They want development, they want sustainability.
The problem is they are not ready to change.
They are expecting others to change.
That's what Gandhiji not expected.
Gandhiji expected to change individuals so that society will change.
It's like everybody, you know, want to become their city, global city,
but they are not behaving like a global city.
I believe, you know, this environment protection should be the part of our culture.
These we can put easily into end minds.
They in turn educate their parents to protect our environment.
When it becomes a part of their life,
they will carry forward the same to the next generation.
If we don't take the action now, next generation people are going to pay the cost for our mistake.
Please save environment for better future for next generation.
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