Tarun Kumar Bansal is an entrepreneur and his spouse, Sunaina, is a homemaker. Collectively they’ve two daughters, Trijaa and Shubhda, finding out in school 3 and sophistication 1 in a college in Gurugram. That’s the place this household stops being atypical.
When the primary wave of COVID-19 subsided in October 2020, all of them set out on a six month journey travelling 26,000 kilometres throughout India, and coated about 200 small villages, 90 cities and extra temples than they will rely. All of this, whereas work and research glided by as regular. And there’s extra—none of it was deliberate.
With mother and father bitten by the journey bug, Trijaa and Shubhda have been already used to 2 month-long leaves from faculty to journey. Proper earlier than the pandemic, their mother and father had taken them to Central America. “Earlier than that, we completed the Latin American circuit,” says Tarun. However setting on an exploration of their very own nation turned out to be greater than only a trip.
Tarun, Sunaina and their daughters Trijaa and Shubhda | Abhaneri Chand Baori, Rajasthan
“It isn’t training we actually want, however information. Our children obtained to study issues about life that you simply don’t study in colleges,” says Bansal, who has watched his youngsters study new issues by roadschooling and apply it to their formal training since then. As mother and father, he believes the journey has taught the couple a number of issues for themselves, and, as he says, “there’s no turning again now.”
This was not the plan…
Tarun and Sunaina’s authentic plan was to take a month-long journey, as a result of it was potential with a “make money working from home” system and on-line education. They took the kids to Jaisalmer—a metropolis they go to as soon as yearly. “Nevertheless it was not deliberate as a six-month journey,” Tarun reveals. It was solely once they have been directed to some native temples within the metropolis after a number of weeks that they realised it was time to discover India’s wealthy tradition, meet individuals, and find out about traditions in numerous elements of the nation at size.