I am a free spirit interested in photography and travel, especially to the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh
I am a Level 10 Local Guide with more than 184 million views of photos and 199 million views of contributions on Google Maps
Starting August 2015, i have done 25+ trips to various places on the Narmada River, which is 1,312 km long and at least 100 million years old, much older than the Ganga. The Rift Valley through which the Narmada flows is more than 2 billion years old!
Every year with a Blue Moon (aka adhika-māsa), i try to do a leisurely PariCarMa [a parikrama by Rocinante, my Innova] around the Great River, which comes to about 3,000 km and takes around three weeks
Here are my books on earlier PariCarMa:
#MaNaPari, a full one
#NarmaDatta, around the lower part of the River from Omkareshwar to Nemawar [the mid-point of the River], where most of the Datta mandir [temple] are seen
I compile books under the name Srinivas Shastri
Here are all my 12 books to date in the order they were published: eBook on Google Play Books (🆓 Sample) with Hardcover/Kindle/Paperback on Amazon
The main reasons for compiling these books
Srinivas Shastri was born in Vizag in 1965, on the edge of Infinity, with Ramakrishna Beach separating his house on a promontory from the Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world
He studied Mechanical Engineering at Andhra University College of Engineering, topping the batch, and majored in Systems and Finance at IIM, Ahmedabad in the mid~1980s
Work was a bit of a shock for him. Somehow he did 19 years of that:
NIIT (April 1987 to December 1989)
TCS (January 1990 to April 1992)
Infosys (June 1992 to October 2003)
Maars India (October 2004 to June 2006), where he gleaned many nuggets about the Net, such as asynchronous design
His path was something else after all that education and work:
Third eye 👁️ got opened up around the end of April 2003
Retired in 2006, at age 41
Did a lot of:
Spiritual reading
Blogging
Photography
Travel
Compiled the baker's dozen of books 📚 on the ఆదేశం [command] of Sai Baba of Shirdi #SBoS, received through medium Mal in Australia mid 2019
Notes:
Google Play Books allows one to upload the same PDF, used for the Hardcover and Paperback editions, as an eBook
Since the Kindle doesn’t allow that, it has been created by saving the gDoc (Google Doc), used to create the Hardcover and Paperback PDFs, as a Microsoft DOCX and then uploading the same. Reformatting the gDoc as an EPUB to create the Kindle has been avoided as far as possible to simplify versioning across various formats