Walk the World, 18 April 2016

Informa Walk the World - 18^th April 2016; also the World Heritage and Monuments Day
Total funds collected: INR 31,200

Highlights of the day:

• 63 people from T&F India contributed 264 kilometers to the Walk the World challenge;
• Inclusive of the 1.5 Kms walk inside the Humayun’s tomb in one hour and 15 minutes!
• 50 colleagues from office - 26 male colleagues, 24 female colleagues
• 13 colleagues from outstation – all walked as promised. A big round of applause
• Walk scheduled on one of the most picturesque routes in Delhi (thanks to ma’am)
• The 3 km walk took a total of 25 minutes and 16 seconds
• We celebrated the World Heritage & Monuments Day appropriately at the Humayun’s Tomb
• Dr Shashank Sinha – our star curator, undoubtedly did a fantastic job! Thank you Shashank. You made this walk more worthwhile.  
• Healthy breakfast to end the day!

Walk the World Report by Sonali Bhardwaj (official reporter), pictures by Pooja Saxena (official photographer) attached.

A few thank you’ s are in order:

• Nitesh & Deepak for running around getting us police permissions to do the walk with Ashish Purwar. It was quite challenging. Thank you so much
• Swati Chopra & Neeti Verma ensuring that we end the walk with a healthy breakfast from choosing vendors and food tasting to finalizing menus. Thank you both.
• Surabhi and Gurkiran for creating those beautiful placards with Deepak, which added so much more value to the walk

And, to Sonali & Deepak for getting us those wonderful T-shirts and bands in a super timeframe of one week

The Day:

We all were very excited in the morning for the iconic charity walk. The reason behind the excitement was of course the walk, but also that this not just the walk but a heritage walk, with picturesque route. In the cool breeze of Delhi, we started our 3km walk at 7.30 am from Lodhi Gardens to Humayun’s tomb.

Ready for walk

Colleagues holding the posters about Delhi during the walk

One more added advantage was that today was the World Heritage Day so there were no entry fee to the Humayun’s tomb. Yayyy!!

At the entrance of Humayun Tomb

Dr Sinha described every detail about the tomb very minutely which attracted a lot of spectators. Even some outsiders joined us! We distributed reading material curated by our walk champions Surabhi and Gurkiran in consultation with Nitasha ma’am, who shared with us some lovely reading material on Delhi.

These are the two must read books if you liked what you read for your Humayun’s Tomb notes:

• Delhi on Road by Supriya Sahay


• Delhi - its monuments & History by Narayani Gupta Spear Percival, Laura Sykes 

Dr Sinha explaining inside the tomb

 The walk ended with delicious healthy breakfast after the walk which everyone enjoyed J

 Testimonials from the colleagues:

• Very well organized, look forward to attend more walks like this

- Deepak Chhabra, Graphic Designer, Marketing

• The walk, the curator and the breakfast everything was perfect

-          Swati Gambhir, Researcher - Statistics, Europa

• The breakfast was very healthy and tasty

-          Zaki Mehdi, Researcher - Statistics, Editorial

• Very well structured and planned

-          Dimple Francis, Executive Secretary to MD, HR & Administration