Announcements and Celebrations, Kumaon, Uttarakhand, YouTube Videos
Published on 10/08/2025
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ROAD TO NARA now on YouTube- Welcoming you on the Channel

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As Writers our responsibility has evolved multifold in last one decade and all the more after Covid. World seems to be on the move even as we speak and Read. We are more busier than Ants and somehow it always feels today that ‘Life is Elsewhere’, at least for a major some.

But if you ask me, Life is within and we are the creators of it. It might be hard and grinding but a lot of Grit and little discipline can see us engrossed in the most beautiful ways where time feels like an illusion.

Writing comes to me as water to Well, in ancient times at least but today, less people seems to be happy with just water. Reading is giving way to watching. And watching is the new eating. We are eating with our eyes and we want even more.

But I do not wish and never desired to start something which felt like a commission either a necessity. Like writing here on the ‘Road To Nara’ Blog has become nature and so have been my Travels even before I knew I could write. Whenever I am On the Road I feel I am more truthful to my untamed self, to my intrinsic nature. I see me when I feel wild and free. Climbing, Interviewing or Hitchhiking. It has been a life filled with deep seeking experiences. But it lacked an Audio-visual medium of sharing until today, having a conversation and hence I feel that I can serve better with having a Channel of this Blog, that I know will certainly bring me and you closer. And helping us and me even more to start having longer conversations, here.

There is no doubt that I want to keep travelling, Writing and now with the technology, make videos that will certainly be no less harder than a directed meditation. But this is something I want to pursue for sometime to come. There is something which has pulled me into it and I would like to give my oblation to this inner fire. But of course, like most things in this life cannot bring joy or any meaningful fruit without your coming along, your smiles, support and suggestions.

Hence as I begin this journey, I invite you to please come along, pay a visit and dabble with some buttons to show your support.

The First Video became first only because of this lovely, short interaction with a Himalayan School kid that comes at the end of the Video after making me eat the flower I never knew in all these years could be eaten.

The video is him teaching me how to eat the State flower of Uttarakhand, Rhododendron also known as Buransh in the local language, about which I wrote extensively on one of my most beautiful walk/trek I ever had in the monsoons 3 years ago.

This short video is a conversation between me and two school kids in the local language.

Eating Rhododendron- the national flower of Nepal and State Flower of Uttarakhand with two School children I met on my way to Jageshwar

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I will take this opportunity to introduce you to About me and importantly

As a co-traveller, will take you through the Ten Lessons I learnt from several years on the road, before you coarse on your own Road to Nara.

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You might also like to know about My Little School Project.

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Hi, I am Narayan Kaudinya. And i welcome you on this journey, the Road to Nara ! I am an Ethnographer and a practicing Indologist. I did my masters in History and further learnt Sanskrit, Yoga and Nerve-therapy. At 24, pushing most academic sounding, office sitting works away, i felt compelled to know and understand the world and my country, Bharat/India. I travelled, and as it happened i took up teaching in Kashmir and further up in the remote villages of Baltistan in the foothills of Karakoram Ranges. For around three years and many states later there came a time when i felt that it was only while teaching i learnt how to laugh, to see, feel, breathe, love and cry -with children, and mostly resource-less parents in the harshest-freezing border conditions. I write, and work as a documentary photographer and Filmmaker, with numerous published, exhibited and some awarded stories. In my travels and life i have let nature lead me, the divine mother, and as a Yogin, my resolve here is to share my experiences and thoughts as honestly, and through them to blossom in everyone the power and possibility in pursuing your breath, that you seek your true nature with courage and curiosity. Here, on this road i will share my spirit, my love for nature, the elements of life that are us. And in doing so, i'll be happy to see you along.

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      Thank you So much for coming along. I will take that as a big like Zephyr ‘mam’ 🙂

      I feel you are going to like these travels. Welcome.

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    Yetismith says

    The video is delightful. How lovely those flowers must look covering the mountain slopes. I did not know they were edible and I am very curious as to their taste. Of course I do not understand a word of the dialog but it really doesn’t matter. I look forward to more of these as you continue your travels.

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      Thank you so much Caro, coming over to see me on this new journey on YouTube. Yes, i did not either if they were edible and this video was about that and how my interaction ended up asking them the Channel’s name. So it pushed me to keep it as the first intro video for the channel.

      I think Rhododendrons must be there too. And yes, it does feel i can share more and deeper the character, learning’s and everything else that comes with multi sensory experience. You now will truly be On the Road To Nara.

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    Anonymous says

    Thank you for sharing; it is always interesting to me to listen to music and conversation in another language. This day, we really are on the road to Nara.

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      Hi, thank you for the lovely and such happy, encouraging comment. Yes, i feel that- I can bring you a little more closer on the Road to Nara 🙂 Thank you.

      I wish I could know and click your link as it tells me ‘Anonymous’. Please keep visiting the Channel now, just not to see but to tell me were it can get better.

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      Hi Lou, please do and let me know If Rhododendrons are there and in what colours?

      But did you manage to see the video? Because I am not sure if you had understood the conversation!

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        Lou Carreras says

        Hi, I found the video interesting, although I could not understand the dialog.
        A bit of casual; research earmarked the use of the various plants in the genus being used medicinally. But also cases of poisoning dating back to Classical times in Greece and nearby Asia Minor. That specifically relates to the honey.
        I think when I have abit of time I’ll look into the folk medicinal area being it was an area of interest when I was working as a practicing anthropologist. Thanks for an extremely interesting post!

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    Saurabh says

    Yet another lovely post, Narayan. Every year, as winter gives way to spring, I feel an urge to witness the beauty of the middle Himalayas and the spectacular abundance of Buransh scattered across the hill slopes. Yes, it is indeed edible, and many village people engage in extracting and bottling its juice. Good to see you embracing YouTube — I’m sure your trips will continue to bring your readers (and now viewers) the many stories life has to tell.

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      You know Saurabh, I briefly worked with Pahari foods in Chamoli/Gopeshwar; checking Quality of the Juice and safety measures of the place and other things that come with extracting Bel, Buransh etc, but it was only this moment while I was riding away when I saw these two kids eating it. I U-turned, spoke to them and for the first time I was told that it could be eaten. I was very happy and surprised learning it.

      Thank you for your welcome, YouTube was long time coming, just that you know we are more comfortable quietly writing in our secluded places. But it’s a step to come closer, a way to explore and remember my own interactions. Let’s see what it brings.

      Thank you for subscribing! (Or did you!! :D)

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      Narayan Kaudinya says

      Ah! Vanya, I didn’t even start this blog to succeed. And same for the channel. It felt must. There is so much to share. And with it whatever comes, inc. friends like you, is success. Isn’t it?

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        Vanya Wryter Consulting says

        By “success” on your channel, I meant a fanbase of viewers. Some YouTubers start a channel and there’s nothing more saddening than spending a lot of time creating a video and getting zero views. So I was wishing you success with getting fans!

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              Narayan Kaudinya says

              Thank you, deae Vanya. I hope slowly and consistently I shall build my community like I have here.

              I will surely go on VidiQ and look up for some tips.

              Also, i have decided to keep writing here and not abandon it due to effort. Let see how it goes.

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