Why an entrepreneur left his job in the US and started an animal rescue centre in Himachal Pradesh

I had a thought that probably “How to be happy?” isn’t the best question to ask and maybe changing where I am will change the question I am asking, and maybe help me find a clue that will eventually make me happy.

Sometimes the clue you need could be right in front of you but you still need to ask the right question to find it.

I’d seen so many white people trying to find their answers in India so at the end of 2010, I too came back to India to find my questions.

While Shivani and I landed at an apartment we maintained in New Delhi, I was still carrying the impressions of the last few books I had read – about rainwater harvesting, how the world was losing soil, how a guy in New Mexico was making sustainable homes out of garbage. A book I was carrying with me was The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book. Multiple things about that title appealed to me.

I had this romantic notion of living off the land. The terrace of my apartment simply wouldn’t do. I had to get out of the city. Hell, I’d live off-grid when I pursue my quest – a modern-day Indian...

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