Book Info
Name of Book : Highway To Swades
Author : Bhairavi Jani
Publisher : HarperCollins India
Publication Date : 11 Nov 2022
No. of Pages : 432
Format : Paperback
Why did I choose the book ?
Highway To Swades by Bhairavi Jani was offered in exchange of an honest review. It is my first time reviewing a travelogue.
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Author Introduction
Bhairavi Jani is a successful logistics and supply-chain entrepreneur, a social-development enthusiast, a nature conservationist and a committed philanthropist. Bhairavi has been listed among ‘India's 25 Power Women' by India Today, and has been featured in Stree Shakti by CNBC Awaaz and Young Turks by CNBC TV18. She was recognized as a ‘Supply Chain Maven' by Business Today.
She is the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaderand was the national chairperson of Young Indians, the youth wing ofConfederation of Indian Industry (2010–11).
Bhairavi is an avid traveler, a trained classical dancer and is passionate about the arts. Her own experiences of growing up in Mumbai, studying and working in the United States, running logistics Venturespan-India, working for developmental programmes and now living in a rural settlement in the Himalaya, give her the unique ability to observe India's journey as a young republic and an old civilization through multiple lenses.
Blurb
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN INDIAN?
In 2014, when Bhairavi Jani got into a car with three friends and drove 18,181 km across India,
from the remote districts of Nagaland to the villages of Rann of Kutch and from the Kashmir
Valley to the interiors of India's Deccan she was searching for the threads that weave the people
of the world's largest democracy together. What she discovered from the many highways she took to swades form the beating heart of this book.
Highway to Swades is a quest to explore and rediscover the inherent civilizational powers
shared by all Indians. Jani identifies twelve such superpowers and maps out how these can be
called to action for the future of the republic and its citizens. In 'Power of Enterprise', for instance, she explores the values that connect India's street vendors and tech entrepreneurs of Bengaluru. In 'Power of Nature', she shares the unlikely bonds that bind the Changpa people of the cold desert wildlife sanctuary in Ladakh, the Khasis of Meghalaya and an Oxford-returned young woman in Kumaon. And, in 'Power of Creativity' she throws light on how our inherent superpower of creativity can help us build a thriving creative economy using new-age tech and AI.
Through an amalgamation of data, travel anecdotes and stories of people from different corners of India, Jani intertwines the country's past, present and future seamlessly.
My Opinion
Highway to Swades by Bhairavi Jani takes you on a journey across India, narrating some beautiful stories. This is my first time reading a travelogue, and I am really impressed with the writing style. I have never imagined India to be so vast and beautiful. And this is not just a travel story but a narrative of different cultures, foods, and passions. With each chapter, I felt like I was also traveling with the author. From Nagaland to Gujarat and Kashmir, the book has enveloped Indians in a few pages. The stories of people who want to bring about a change in people's lives are something to be praised. Readers who love to read about diverse cultures would be surprised by the manner in which India has been depicted in the book.
I loved the author's writing style, as it was really engaging. My favorite part of the book was 'Power of Beauty', where the author showed us Ajanta Caves while just sitting at home. I do not know if it could have been anything better. The minute details of adjoining mountains and rivers were so alive that I could visualize them with my open eyes. Definitely, the book can be considered a guide for a travel enthusiast. Also, there were so many details about our Indian culture that you cannot overlook. For me, the book deserves 5 stars, but I think they are too low for it.
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