In 2006, Yogendra (nick: Yogi) got diagnosed with a rare, non-curable and non-reversible Chronic Disease, the GI “IBD-UC“. He has been fighting it out since then……….It was in 2018 that he gradually managed to achieved control over IBD-UC. This control would not have been possible had he not engaged himself into Fitness Activities, which he started in 2013, in-spite of having a restricted diet plan. His Food habits had already been restricted due to IBD-UC and he was having a clean diet since 2006. Through this platform, he wishes to share his experience and spread awareness on the process of HEALING your OWN GOODSELF, because many of us are Unaware of how to achieve control / freedom over illness, especially those related to the Stomach and the Gut, which he has a close experience of…….
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MY JOURNEY – Childhood to date….
BORN: I was born in a small village “KASHNI“, in Surajgarh city, in the district of Jhunjhunu in the Shekhawati region of Indian state of Rajasthan in 1975. My schooling was done in Army School, Bengdubi, till 1994 in Darjeeling District of West Bengal and graduation in 1996 at N.B.U, West Bengal. I landed in mayanagri Mumbai in June, 1996.
CHILDHOOD: Back in my childhood, I was residing in the evergreen escapes of PANIGHATTA TEA ESTATE, a Tea Estate village on the banks of Balason River and the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains surrounded by Forests on the other side, at 30 kms from Bagdogra Airport and at the foot-hills of Darjeeling, cascading a huge mountainous landscape all around viz. the Kangchenjunga, the 3rd highest mountain in the world, Kalimpong, Sikkim, Gangtok, Mirik, Darjeeling, and nearby Mount Everest at 150km in Nepal-China border, to name a few….
SCHOOL: My School at Bengdubi was an ARMY SCHOOL in a small Army Hub with encampment where the Army is totally wide-spread and has vast amount of open area and forests. It is a beautiful camp with all type of scenery and hundreds of types of birds and animals. With small streams to tea garden it is a very beautiful place to visit. The mountains are also visible from Bengdubi and it always has a wonderful weather.
LIFE: I had an athletic and adventurous life during my childhood. School travelling was almost 18 kms one-way, and it was a tough journey as private buses were overcrowded due to low frequency. To worsen things, we were faced with Bus strikes almost over 90 days in a year for sure. These Bus strikes forced us children to either bicycle our way to school (32 kms to-fro) or cover half way on foot and half way getting rides on the Army Vehicles / Stone Dumper & Truck-carriers plying their way to the Balason River to collect stones for road / site construction.
We Children in a bunch of 10-15-20 would cross the Forest-Jungles, between our Home-School-Home, as it was a short cut to the 18km journey squeezing it to only 12 km by foot. The Forest housed over 300 elephants, Lions, Leopards, Wild, Pigs, Hens, Goats, snakes, reptiles and many other wild lives. The Balason River flows across the Forest-Jungle and is flooded during the monsoons, roaring with high intensity which can be heard 5 kms away from it.
It would many times get too dark as we kids walked our way back home and passed through the Christian Graveyard at the end of the Forest, near the Tea Estate Village Play-Ground near our house.
On weekends it was time for trekking to the old British bunglow- The BaraKothi (skip at end of this Video for the Bunglow ruined now) which was in good shape then and was maintained by the Manager of the Panighatta Tea Estate for recreation facilities and we used to play badminton up there on the TOP-BUNGLOW then. Now. The only attraction in Panighata near Siliguri is an old British bunglow on the hill top known as “Saheb Kuthi” or simply Barakothi and it’s in RUINS. Hope administration looks into this.
In-spite of these challenges, Life never seemed tired, due to the adventurous life I had faced. Everyday Life after school went to the playground for almost 3 hours playing Football and I reached the district levels to play football, which is the main sport of West Bengal.
Moreover, it seemed as a normal routine and nothing special case seemed for us back then as against the luxurious and well facilitated life my children have seen in Mumbai schooling now !!!