Mysuru: City dwellers often have a romantic idea of rural India. Fresh air, open spaces and green fields construct their perception about how the rural Bharat where majority of country’s population reside.
The participants of Walk Within-2019 opined that this perception changed drastically as they walked through 44 villages and a total of 160 kms. Each village helped them see the real rural Bharat with its own set of good and bad. Walk Within was a first step for urban dwellers to engage with rural Bharat and gain first-hand experience of their challenges and opportunities. It also helped the participants challenge their own limits physically and mentally.
