Talk to the Experts #2

Manvendra Singh Inaniya

A Small Intro:

I’ve known Manvendra(I call him Sunny) since my 9th standard and even then he was a person who would wanna do things his way and live life to the fullest. A dropout from VIT Mechanical Engineering, he was on a quest to understand his purpose of life, he did odd jobs, slept on the streets, worked with NGOs. Then for a long time he was working in Greenpeace Organisation. He later moved on to Bhoomi college, learned about nature with nature , lived in a house made by himself without electricity. Currently he is making forests.

Do check out his Youtube talks to know a lot more about him and make hire him to make forest in your locality 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDkmy5j2O0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nE4xinF30g

So,

We thought we’d contact him to know more about his way of life. We had a Skype call with him. So he had very practical view on Sustainability. Being a person who had once lived completely sustainable once (drawing water from the mountain streams, making fire and cooking, zero electricity usage being some of them), his view was that a sustainable way of living was about conflicts. Of sacrificing and making a choice or letting go of some choices. He didn’t believe that any amount of talking and preaching on sustainability would do any good unless one has experienced it to its extreme . Talking about Sustainability was the easiest to do, according to him, in the comforts of your surrounding.

His advice was to live with less. He didn’t want to be frustrated on life and to be too hard on oneself for living sustainable. He didn’t wanna,’Kill my desires’. He would take abandoned things from Lost and Found section, Use Locally produced things, Use less energy , Pro create with the people around him.

He was happy that we were talking and thinking in such lines. But in simple terms for him – Life is simple and easy. Don’t try to be too hard on yourself.Live Simple, Love all- Those were the best ways to be sustainable.

FIN.

🙂