There is great natural beauty in India -- but we get tourism wrong. We allow beautiful places to become tourist traps. The local people do not benefit enough. We don't care about sustainability.
It need not be this way.
Welcome to Episode 58 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Ajay and Amit, recording the last of The Bir Sessions, discuss how Himalayan states can build tourism and grow their economies in a way that benefits the local people and is sustainable. Win-win all around.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Packaging
00:13 Introduction: The Tourist Who Comes After Me
03:11 Chapter 1: What’s Best for the Himalayan Regions?
04:46 Chapter 2: The Normal Recipe Won’t Work Here
12:09 Chapter 3: The Demographics Look Good
17:26 Chapter 4: The Natural State of Things
23:29 Chapter 5: The Cautionary Tale of Dharamshala
28:46 Chapter 6: What Can We Do?
40:22 Chapter 7: Has It Worked in India?
43:22 Chapter 8: How a State Government Can Think
48:17 Chapter 9: Recommendations
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
2. Ajay on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: [ Ссылка ]
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: [ Ссылка ])
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: [ Ссылка ]
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: [ Ссылка ]
7. The India Uncut Newsletter -- Amit's newsletter at [ Ссылка ]
8. Public Policy courses at Takshashila: [ Ссылка ]
9. How to Do Development -- Episode 57 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
10. India Needs Decentralization -- Episode 47 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
11. What's Wrong With Indian Agriculture? -- Episode 18 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
12. Our Population Is Our Greatest Asset -- Episode 20 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
13. When Should the State Act? -- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
14. Pritika Hingorani Wants to Fix Our Cities — Episode 361 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
15. Malini Goyal is the Curious One — Episode 377 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
16. Unboxing Bengaluru — Malini Goyal and Prashanth Prakash: [ Ссылка ]
17. Order without Design -- Alain Bertaud: [ Ссылка ]
18. Horizon -- Barry Lopez: [ Ссылка ]
19. Trek The Sahyadris -- Harish Kapadia: [ Ссылка ]
20. Autumn Passage to the Himalaya -- Harish Kapadia: [ Ссылка ]
21. The Hiking Episode -- Episode 35 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
Produced by Amit Varma
Shot by Vaishnav Vyas and Nomsita MS Haritashya: [ Ссылка ]
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: [ Ссылка ]
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: [ Ссылка ]
Chapter image by Simahina: [ Ссылка ]
