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It was in early 2003, that the idea was conceived. It did take nine months to come to life. Even through the stage of conception, Soulitudes has received tremendous support and love from family, friends and have found partners who share similar sensibilities and views on travel.

Shobhana Jain
Shobhana is a Bombay (refuses to call it Mumbai) girl with a

background in Psychology and Literature from Sophia college in erstwhile Bombay. Her travel bug has remained consistent over the past 20 years. Her father would take the family on road trips in the mid 80s from Bombay to Kashmir (North) and Bombay to Kanyakumari (South). As part of the nature club in college, she visited wildlife sanctuaries and marine sanctuaries in Western and Central India. Before the return home, exploratory travels have ranged from Tuscan Vineyards, to ski chalets in Meribel, France, to the Big Bus Ride in London, to beaches of Thailand and Bali, and the Highway 1 West Coast drive in the US of A. The photography bug blossomed in Hong Kong and has remained. Visuals of the travels are hosted on Webshots (http://community.webshots.com/user/shobhanaj). She conceived the name Soulitudes during an afternoon walk with her better half through the noisy, monsoon clogged sludgy lanes of Bandra; the locality they live in Mumbai.

Ram Badrinathan
After gasping and spluttering through his engineering, Ram s

pent three years in advertising in Calcutta with JWT and Grey Worldwide. The Internet and multimedia came along in 1996, when he joined Aesthetic Technologies, a bond that remains to this day. After completing his MBA in Hong Kong in 2000, he joined the hottest dotcom in Greater China, ChinaDotcom, saw the ups and downs, and survived five rounds of layoffs. Between all this, one day, Ram missed India and its soul. Thus began the quest, the journey through music, literature, Indian spirituality, cinema, food and family, and to marry the best of West and East. As he claims, he spent his first 25 years wanting to run away from India, and hopes to spend the next 25 discovering it, and yet remain a part of universal humanity.

Ram is also the Asia Pacific analyst for the leading U.S. Travel research company PhoCusWright Inc, where he studies the impact of technology on travel.

Media Bytes
Here are some links leading to write-ups in the media about our events
- The outdoor zealots | Hindu Businessline
- On the tiger trail | New Indian Express
- Tracking tigers with Shyam Benegal | A writer and his web-blahg
- Travel Genies | Mid Day