[Music]
I’m Jatin Filipa
I finished my graduation in 1993 I was
never a studious person throughout my
life I did AG I did graduation because
that’s the minimum qualification needed
to apply for a white college job in 20
years of working life I switch eleven
jobs started working as a computer
operator in desktop publishing house I
worked as a graphic designer
user interface designer animator game
developer my large dog was with
advertising agency from Mumbai purpose
of life was switched to a better job on
money and live a better life so how to
break this vicious circle was an obvious
question always on my mind I was passing
photography as a hobby Photography is
not get going to learn in travels so I
started taking thousands of pictures in
the travel and some of them I like to
visit again and again I’m going to show
you them now so low heat and while
you’re while you are having a look at
them these pictures I would like to
relay think of your childhood days so
going back to the picture Rohit and
always they are from village pinguin
near Raja Bell in Kashmir this ground
surfing game is their daily winning
activity no fancy gaming console
required just a wooden plank with wills
Josefina and Sarita there’s two sisters
they are their parents run a dhaba in
Nakano cutural
we had a dinner their previous night
while these girls were very shy we went
there again next day morning for
breakfast while we ate this girl’s
played with us and they gave us some
fun-filled short
and we saw the love and hate
relationship between them these gujja
kids
they’re from Roger II we saw them on the
way to cosmos grace here in stone mug so
good days are Shepherds and these good
JA kids attended had attended nomadic
school and as a proof they recited us
some numbers alphabets songs and dance
and they were happy to receive
chocolates as the reward
this guy was playing a mirror game
putting a reflection of the Sun on the
ground the light was what caught our
attention on the way – wrong – this is
the wrong room on the way to John’s car
we saw these kids playing near the stupa
when we our awell truck was just halted
for lunch so so what is the common
factor between all these kids so they
all are living close to the nature they
are living there happy for the simple
things they are doing in the life they
are curious and more eager to know
everything there it’s supposed to all
what they need is clean air open spaces
do you want to leave that life again
keep traveling Sandeep I will tell you
our experience about the travel so
tayeton and I met around 7 years ago we
met through a marriage bureau it was a
love for travel that brought us together
and within a few months of that first
meeting we were husband and wife life
went on as it does usually for a newly
married couple in Mumbai I’m an
electronics engineer so my days were
spent designing circuits writing
assembly language programs sometimes
visiting the factory floors we would get
to spend like a few hours each night
have dinner and go off to sleep on
monsoon weekends we would go for tracks
in the saya trees on longer weekends go
a little further
but to obviously crowded places every
time you would come back with dreams of
this longer bigger adventure sometime in
our life we must would be lost handled
end of that conversation as time went by
we would see lesser of each other our
life started following this fixed
predictable pattern we knew this was
going to lead to lesser time fewer
adventures but definitely higher EMIs
something had to change and it had to
change now we needed to step out of our
lives and have a look at it from the
outside we needed a tool that could help
us teach what could be changed and how
we could change it it wasn’t really that
difficult putting two and two together
the more we thought about this the cause
of those bigger louder louder at when
our longer adventures just became louder
internet research few tons of examples
of people who had been travelling long
term so we decided to make a long-term
travel the tool of our transformation we
chose to travel in South America the
continent we knew very little off they
spoke the languages that we didn’t speak
at all so we traveled deep down south at
the peak of the southern hemisphere
winter the five months that we spent in
South America we saw nature in its grand
glory I remember the first time I laid
my eyes on perito moreno it’s the
world’s only growing glacier it’s a size
larger than the city of Buenos Aires
sprawled across lago argentino and
because it’s constantly growing parts of
the glacier sometimes hit land mass and
it causes huge chunks of ice to come
crashing down into the lake waters it
causes ripples higher than the ocean
waves and the sound of that crash is
louder than the loudest firecrackers
you’ve ever heard we were mesmerized by
that side we realized we were staring at
an open mouth only when our jaw started
to hurt in the tour of the salar de
uyuni we saw lakes colored green and red
and huge rocks sculpted by the howling
winds and of course we saw the flattest
on earth the soil fetcher for your name
we spend 10 days over the meandering
golden snake that is Amazon River
flowing through the Amazon rainforest we
saw the life that had protect life that
it supported around and the earth that
had protected as it flowed through
different countries I think was who
waterfalls we saw The Devil’s Throat
amassing gallons of water each second
when the Sun came out a beautiful
rainbow appeared across the waterfall as
if greeting us warmly so when you are
seeing this unbelievable unreal wonders
of nature in the far corners of the
earth you get the strong sense of
possession you aren’t thinking that’s
all floods belong to Bolivia or the
perito moreno belongs to Argentina
you’re thinking how lucky you are that
this wonder of nature is right here on
this planet on Mother Earth you’re
thinking of privileged you are to be
able to see it you’re thinking it’s all
yours it’s all ours and you want to do
everything that you can to protect it to
keep it safe and to keep it intact
travelens taught us to connect with
others with whom we don’t have much in
common we were in the city of Sucre
that’s the capital of Bolivia this was a
long two months into our that’s aside
from Sukhram it’s around this was around
two months into our travels in South
America and in Bolivia we faced our
first major language crisis almost
nobody speaks English and our knowledge
of Spanish was still just the basics but
we did know that chicken is poem so one
night we entered this eatery that served
only chicken a girl came to take our
order and very knowingly we said boy
open up pollo por favor
chicken please she started asking us
many more questions we don’t understand
anything
finally exasperated she just pointed to
her legs her breasts with the flapping
actions she wanted to know what part of
the chicken we would prefer we laughed
out loudly yeah we just showed her to
give us the leg piece and enjoyed our
meal that night
cab drivers in Rio de Janeiro have given
us perfectly
since without a spoken word and insisted
that they help us reach our destination
because we are visiting and new to their
city this one time you were walking down
the streets of Cairo bucum it’s a remote
village high up in the Andean mountains
it’s so remote that even Spanish isn’t
commonly spoken there people still speak
the native virtual language they were
playing with this cool little kids in
the village taking their pictures and
old man saw is doing this and he
approached us he tapped on our shoulders
and he directed us forward so we just
what it started following him and he
took us to his home then he changed a
ceremonial hat and he changed the hat
that he was wearing and put this more
ceremonial one and then he pointed to
our camera so he wanted us to picture
him in this ceremonial head so taking
his cue everybody in the family he
started posing for their own pictures
when they learn that we were from India
they were fascinated at having met
somebody from so far away they then
wanted me to pose in their family
portrait the portrait they would
probably never see again but that family
and us will always have that one shared
moment together understanding each other
doesn’t take too much of verbal written
or digital communication all it needs is
like basic human interest travel is this
great DIY tool that pushes you
constantly to come up with workable
solutions where’s the nearest
supermarket which aisle in the
supermarket stocks the milk how much of
the boliviano
a Saleh or a rial or a peso worth what’s
the currency exchange rate how much cash
is it safe to carry in your pockets what
are the bank federal charges you have to
rely on all of this stuff that you take
for granted back home you will you reach
a new place you figure all this stuff
out then in a week’s time it’s a
different city maybe even a different
country you have to unlearn all that
you’ve just learned and start with a
clean slate travel teaches you to be
outside of your comfort zone all the
time and you start loving it
people circumstances locations they keep
changing constantly and adapting to this
change quickly that becomes your way of
life travel also gives you this rare
opportunity to form your own
perspectives you don’t have to rely on
what others say or what you read to form
your own opinions every picture that we
had seen of the cholos and the cholitas
these are the natives of the Andean
mountains so every picture of the earth
had shown them have these crooked brown
stained teeth that’s because they all
chew coca leaves for these coca leaves
are the raw material to make cocaine and
that’s legal the coca leaves are legal
in Bolivia and Peru and everybody chews
it all the time they are really bitter
and we wondered why would someone want
to do that especially when it makes your
teeth look like that not Anthony work
lime being the 200 steps of the high
altitude Isla del Sol with these
cholitas lugging huge sacks of luggage
on their back did we realize the
importance of chewing those coca leaves
when every breath that you take hurts
and you have to do this several times
each day just to earn your living it
doesn’t really matter what your teeth
look like back home we were trekking
through the forests of Chuck pal in
Kashmir and when he felt hungry we told
our guide to take us to some place where
we could get some food he took us to a
show up in his village and he was like
here you’ll get everything here chips
biscuits everything we asked him if he
could get some fruits or apricots
instead he just nodded dismissively and
he was like what’s an apricot gonna do
to fill your stomach have these chips
instead they’ll like you know it’ll be
good for you which come from it comes
from your cities we were taken aback by
this assumption and thought it was time
to make him aware of the reality so we
told him make these chips are really
unhealthy to have and it’s good to have
fruits he was stunned he thought for a
moment and then he asked us you mean we
send you all this healthy stuff from our
villages
and what you send us back this junk
instead this is the guy in his village I
mean we just had to tell him yeah that’s
exactly what happens until we traveled
in South America we didn’t really know
what cold meant I mean here in Mumbai
when the temperature drops to 18 we say
it’s winter well degree Celsius a severe
winter rate this one night during our
tour of the salar de uyuni we spend the
night in this remote sanctuary at minus
20 degree celsius without any heaters
though we were laden with like seven
layers of clothing the slightest
movement we did send chills down our
spine now we know what a cold wave does
to somebody who is going through it not
until we were lost in the forest of
pahalgam at night did we realize what it
felt like to be lost in an unknown land
without any sign of help earlier
Argentina was just this long country
somewhere far away today it’s where our
friends Laura and Nicole live Bolivia is
where my Spanish teacher and real lives
and Machu Picchu is where we climbed up
a mountain with our Canadian friend 4z
discussing an Iranian cafe that his
grandfather had once opened here in
Mumbai
the travel puts you through all these
moments which you probably wouldn’t
sitting at home it sensitizes you to
what’s happening around you it makes you
aware of the reality that is around you
you learn to put yourself in the other
person’s shoes because probably you have
met someone like that other person and
maybe just for a little while
lived through their lives a few years
back we would spend our time reading
travel stories of people who would go
from one country to the other their
tales of overland crossing where you
cross the borders of the country without
taking a flight this overland crossing
fascinated us we thought it was
impossible to do that with an Indian
passport but in our first long-term
travel in South America we crossed from
Brazil into Argentina by bus we walked
from Argentina into Bolivia and we
entered a back into Brazil through Peru
in a cargo boat crossing one of the
remotest border crossings in the world
in the Amazon rainforest thinking of all
of this stuff it felt like a monumental
task I mean with intamin dream of these
things but now looking back it just
feels all so easy it was as simple as
moving one step ahead life has to our
travel has taught us that life really is
very simple we have learn to live with
less things and thoughts to travel we
have learned that no dream is impossible
to achieve thank you
[Applause]
I’m Jatin Filipa
I finished my graduation in 1993 I was
never a studious person throughout my
life I did AG I did graduation because
that’s the minimum qualification needed
to apply for a white college job in 20
years of working life I switch eleven
jobs started working as a computer
operator in desktop publishing house I
worked as a graphic designer
user interface designer animator game
developer my large dog was with
advertising agency from Mumbai purpose
of life was switched to a better job on
money and live a better life so how to
break this vicious circle was an obvious
question always on my mind I was passing
photography as a hobby Photography is
not get going to learn in travels so I
started taking thousands of pictures in
the travel and some of them I like to
visit again and again I’m going to show
you them now so low heat and while
you’re while you are having a look at
them these pictures I would like to
relay think of your childhood days so
going back to the picture Rohit and
always they are from village pinguin
near Raja Bell in Kashmir this ground
surfing game is their daily winning
activity no fancy gaming console
required just a wooden plank with wills
Josefina and Sarita there’s two sisters
they are their parents run a dhaba in
Nakano cutural
we had a dinner their previous night
while these girls were very shy we went
there again next day morning for
breakfast while we ate this girl’s
played with us and they gave us some
fun-filled short
and we saw the love and hate
relationship between them these gujja
kids
they’re from Roger II we saw them on the
way to cosmos grace here in stone mug so
good days are Shepherds and these good
JA kids attended had attended nomadic
school and as a proof they recited us
some numbers alphabets songs and dance
and they were happy to receive
chocolates as the reward
this guy was playing a mirror game
putting a reflection of the Sun on the
ground the light was what caught our
attention on the way – wrong – this is
the wrong room on the way to John’s car
we saw these kids playing near the stupa
when we our awell truck was just halted
for lunch so so what is the common
factor between all these kids so they
all are living close to the nature they
are living there happy for the simple
things they are doing in the life they
are curious and more eager to know
everything there it’s supposed to all
what they need is clean air open spaces
do you want to leave that life again
keep traveling Sandeep I will tell you
our experience about the travel so
tayeton and I met around 7 years ago we
met through a marriage bureau it was a
love for travel that brought us together
and within a few months of that first
meeting we were husband and wife life
went on as it does usually for a newly
married couple in Mumbai I’m an
electronics engineer so my days were
spent designing circuits writing
assembly language programs sometimes
visiting the factory floors we would get
to spend like a few hours each night
have dinner and go off to sleep on
monsoon weekends we would go for tracks
in the saya trees on longer weekends go
a little further
but to obviously crowded places every
time you would come back with dreams of
this longer bigger adventure sometime in
our life we must would be lost handled
end of that conversation as time went by
we would see lesser of each other our
life started following this fixed
predictable pattern we knew this was
going to lead to lesser time fewer
adventures but definitely higher EMIs
something had to change and it had to
change now we needed to step out of our
lives and have a look at it from the
outside we needed a tool that could help
us teach what could be changed and how
we could change it it wasn’t really that
difficult putting two and two together
the more we thought about this the cause
of those bigger louder louder at when
our longer adventures just became louder
internet research few tons of examples
of people who had been travelling long
term so we decided to make a long-term
travel the tool of our transformation we
chose to travel in South America the
continent we knew very little off they
spoke the languages that we didn’t speak
at all so we traveled deep down south at
the peak of the southern hemisphere
winter the five months that we spent in
South America we saw nature in its grand
glory I remember the first time I laid
my eyes on perito moreno it’s the
world’s only growing glacier it’s a size
larger than the city of Buenos Aires
sprawled across lago argentino and
because it’s constantly growing parts of
the glacier sometimes hit land mass and
it causes huge chunks of ice to come
crashing down into the lake waters it
causes ripples higher than the ocean
waves and the sound of that crash is
louder than the loudest firecrackers
you’ve ever heard we were mesmerized by
that side we realized we were staring at
an open mouth only when our jaw started
to hurt in the tour of the salar de
uyuni we saw lakes colored green and red
and huge rocks sculpted by the howling
winds and of course we saw the flattest
on earth the soil fetcher for your name
we spend 10 days over the meandering
golden snake that is Amazon River
flowing through the Amazon rainforest we
saw the life that had protect life that
it supported around and the earth that
had protected as it flowed through
different countries I think was who
waterfalls we saw The Devil’s Throat
amassing gallons of water each second
when the Sun came out a beautiful
rainbow appeared across the waterfall as
if greeting us warmly so when you are
seeing this unbelievable unreal wonders
of nature in the far corners of the
earth you get the strong sense of
possession you aren’t thinking that’s
all floods belong to Bolivia or the
perito moreno belongs to Argentina
you’re thinking how lucky you are that
this wonder of nature is right here on
this planet on Mother Earth you’re
thinking of privileged you are to be
able to see it you’re thinking it’s all
yours it’s all ours and you want to do
everything that you can to protect it to
keep it safe and to keep it intact
travelens taught us to connect with
others with whom we don’t have much in
common we were in the city of Sucre
that’s the capital of Bolivia this was a
long two months into our that’s aside
from Sukhram it’s around this was around
two months into our travels in South
America and in Bolivia we faced our
first major language crisis almost
nobody speaks English and our knowledge
of Spanish was still just the basics but
we did know that chicken is poem so one
night we entered this eatery that served
only chicken a girl came to take our
order and very knowingly we said boy
open up pollo por favor
chicken please she started asking us
many more questions we don’t understand
anything
finally exasperated she just pointed to
her legs her breasts with the flapping
actions she wanted to know what part of
the chicken we would prefer we laughed
out loudly yeah we just showed her to
give us the leg piece and enjoyed our
meal that night
cab drivers in Rio de Janeiro have given
us perfectly
since without a spoken word and insisted
that they help us reach our destination
because we are visiting and new to their
city this one time you were walking down
the streets of Cairo bucum it’s a remote
village high up in the Andean mountains
it’s so remote that even Spanish isn’t
commonly spoken there people still speak
the native virtual language they were
playing with this cool little kids in
the village taking their pictures and
old man saw is doing this and he
approached us he tapped on our shoulders
and he directed us forward so we just
what it started following him and he
took us to his home then he changed a
ceremonial hat and he changed the hat
that he was wearing and put this more
ceremonial one and then he pointed to
our camera so he wanted us to picture
him in this ceremonial head so taking
his cue everybody in the family he
started posing for their own pictures
when they learn that we were from India
they were fascinated at having met
somebody from so far away they then
wanted me to pose in their family
portrait the portrait they would
probably never see again but that family
and us will always have that one shared
moment together understanding each other
doesn’t take too much of verbal written
or digital communication all it needs is
like basic human interest travel is this
great DIY tool that pushes you
constantly to come up with workable
solutions where’s the nearest
supermarket which aisle in the
supermarket stocks the milk how much of
the boliviano
a Saleh or a rial or a peso worth what’s
the currency exchange rate how much cash
is it safe to carry in your pockets what
are the bank federal charges you have to
rely on all of this stuff that you take
for granted back home you will you reach
a new place you figure all this stuff
out then in a week’s time it’s a
different city maybe even a different
country you have to unlearn all that
you’ve just learned and start with a
clean slate travel teaches you to be
outside of your comfort zone all the
time and you start loving it
people circumstances locations they keep
changing constantly and adapting to this
change quickly that becomes your way of
life travel also gives you this rare
opportunity to form your own
perspectives you don’t have to rely on
what others say or what you read to form
your own opinions every picture that we
had seen of the cholos and the cholitas
these are the natives of the Andean
mountains so every picture of the earth
had shown them have these crooked brown
stained teeth that’s because they all
chew coca leaves for these coca leaves
are the raw material to make cocaine and
that’s legal the coca leaves are legal
in Bolivia and Peru and everybody chews
it all the time they are really bitter
and we wondered why would someone want
to do that especially when it makes your
teeth look like that not Anthony work
lime being the 200 steps of the high
altitude Isla del Sol with these
cholitas lugging huge sacks of luggage
on their back did we realize the
importance of chewing those coca leaves
when every breath that you take hurts
and you have to do this several times
each day just to earn your living it
doesn’t really matter what your teeth
look like back home we were trekking
through the forests of Chuck pal in
Kashmir and when he felt hungry we told
our guide to take us to some place where
we could get some food he took us to a
show up in his village and he was like
here you’ll get everything here chips
biscuits everything we asked him if he
could get some fruits or apricots
instead he just nodded dismissively and
he was like what’s an apricot gonna do
to fill your stomach have these chips
instead they’ll like you know it’ll be
good for you which come from it comes
from your cities we were taken aback by
this assumption and thought it was time
to make him aware of the reality so we
told him make these chips are really
unhealthy to have and it’s good to have
fruits he was stunned he thought for a
moment and then he asked us you mean we
send you all this healthy stuff from our
villages
and what you send us back this junk
instead this is the guy in his village I
mean we just had to tell him yeah that’s
exactly what happens until we traveled
in South America we didn’t really know
what cold meant I mean here in Mumbai
when the temperature drops to 18 we say
it’s winter well degree Celsius a severe
winter rate this one night during our
tour of the salar de uyuni we spend the
night in this remote sanctuary at minus
20 degree celsius without any heaters
though we were laden with like seven
layers of clothing the slightest
movement we did send chills down our
spine now we know what a cold wave does
to somebody who is going through it not
until we were lost in the forest of
pahalgam at night did we realize what it
felt like to be lost in an unknown land
without any sign of help earlier
Argentina was just this long country
somewhere far away today it’s where our
friends Laura and Nicole live Bolivia is
where my Spanish teacher and real lives
and Machu Picchu is where we climbed up
a mountain with our Canadian friend 4z
discussing an Iranian cafe that his
grandfather had once opened here in
Mumbai
the travel puts you through all these
moments which you probably wouldn’t
sitting at home it sensitizes you to
what’s happening around you it makes you
aware of the reality that is around you
you learn to put yourself in the other
person’s shoes because probably you have
met someone like that other person and
maybe just for a little while
lived through their lives a few years
back we would spend our time reading
travel stories of people who would go
from one country to the other their
tales of overland crossing where you
cross the borders of the country without
taking a flight this overland crossing
fascinated us we thought it was
impossible to do that with an Indian
passport but in our first long-term
travel in South America we crossed from
Brazil into Argentina by bus we walked
from Argentina into Bolivia and we
entered a back into Brazil through Peru
in a cargo boat crossing one of the
remotest border crossings in the world
in the Amazon rainforest thinking of all
of this stuff it felt like a monumental
task I mean with intamin dream of these
things but now looking back it just
feels all so easy it was as simple as
moving one step ahead life has to our
travel has taught us that life really is
very simple we have learn to live with
less things and thoughts to travel we
have learned that no dream is impossible
to achieve thank you
[Applause]
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