Born in Central India, Pallavi grew up with a love of forests and wildlife. With a degree in Computer Science, she moved to Bangalore to start her career as a software programmer. A few years later, she started yearning to get out of corporate life, and one day, she did! Awakened to her true calling, she volunteered and worked with a wildlife research organisation. More…

 

Aahna was born in Bangalore and attended kindergarten there before moving to Binsar. She was home-schooled through her primary school in Binsar and attends a residential school now. Aahna is a good hiker, loves water and is a capable swimmer. She is a certified junior open water diver. She likes reading books, doing art and craft and wants to be a writer. She wants to live in Uttarakhand when she grows up. More…

 

Anybody attending Punjab University in the late 80’s and early 90’s would have been in a social vacuum to not have known Rajesh. He has double masters in Philosophy and Politics (subjects that continue to be close to his heart), and was all set to scale the academic high ground by enrolling for a PhD when fate intervened and he found himself setting up and running one of India’s earliest luxury camps in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. More…

 

Preetam is from Telangana, grew up in Hyderabad and attended IIT Madras, where he studied Civil Engineering. Upon graduating in 1996, he joined Infosys Technologies in Bangalore. The subsequent decade and a half, despite their highlights, convinced him that a corporate career wasn’t his calling. In 2014, Rajesh and Preetam partnered to take over what was then The Binsar Retreat, and after painstaking renovation, re-launched it as Binsar Forest Retreat in April 2015. More…

 

After travelling extensively and making tourism her choice of profession, Kavita chose to move back from Delhi to her ancestral home in Himachal Pradesh in 2014. The unhurried pace of life in a small town helped her discover and explore her latent interests: crochet, a healing modality called Serenity Surrender and a budding interest in gardening! More…