The next step for Aniket and his fellow travellers, two of whom, Dipanjan Chakraborty and Sudipto Pati, were going to be joining them from Bangalore and Kolkata, was to collect art supplies. We set up a light at the gate of the school and taught the 15 or 20 odd kids how to make the lamps. It was more of an after-school education centre run by a New Zealand-based woman named Joe Smith. “Ayan and I travel together a lot. “We were travelling through Kunzum Pass, when the bus broke down. Here, a few well-placed posts on social media and on Ayan’s website got desirable results, and with a bagful of donated craft material, Aniket set off for Delhi. Then this year he called up and asked if I want to come along with him on a project he was doing in some villages in the Himachal. “The idea was to teach them to create bottle art so that they can sell it at the local markets, and also help light up the more remote villages, where electricity is limited in supply,” says Ayan.

As such, it should have been smooth sailing. blow molding machine manufacturer .It was on a muggy July day that Aniket Mitra got a phone call that would take his life on a pleasant detour from his nine to five job as a consultant at Deloitte, Mumbai. “Initially, I had wanted to see what those picturesque villages on the hills would look like with a light at every doorstep. But when I started working with them, I realised that I wanted to help them find a way of making a living from converting scrap to works of art. “I met a friend from Jawaharlal Nehru University, who also had a bunch of material that she had gathered from people she knew in Delhi,” he explains. The next stop was Lanza, where we all had some breathing trouble seeing as it’s at a very high altitude. We’ve been to Rann of Kutch and Pondicherry together and were supposed to go to the hills last year. Somehow, we managed to make it to a nearby village called Losar, which is roughly 50 km from Kaza — the capital of Spiti, which was our next destination,” Aniket reminisces. It seemed like a great plan, so I agreed to go,” recalls Aniket.. When Aniket met Ayan, he had covered two remote little hamlets near Kasol. A lot of work needs to be done, but I hope I can do it sometime next year,” Ayan signs off, with an open invitation to join in. We were stranded there in the cold for five hours.The idea was to teach them to create bottle art so that they can sell it at the local markets, says Ayan Biswas.The team already had a working model in place. I plan to do the same thing in Assam.