Akhil Bakshi (Gurgaon, India)

On completing his management studies from Dusseldorf, Germany and

from University of San Francisco and University of Washington, 

Seattle, Akhil Bakshi worked for four years in an agrochemical 

company. During this period, he travelled extensively throughout 

rural India, working and living in villages. For ten years, between 

1982-1991, he assisted late Mr Rajiv Gandhi in initiating, 

implementing and monitoring development programmes in his 

constituency, Amethi. As Director General of Nehru Yuva Kendra 

Sangathan, he developed the institution into a youth movement and 

the largest grassroots organisation in the world.  Later, as an 

Officer on Special Duty to the Prime Minister of India, Mr PV 

Narasimha Rao, he helped initiate several national programmes for 

social and rural development.

Due to his keen interest in public service, Akhil Bakshi has set up 

two non-government organisations. Yuva Shakti, a national 

organisation of rural youth leaders, seeks to provide good 

leadership at the village-level. Society for Creation of Heaven on 

Earth assists small and marginal farmers and landless labourers in 

increasing their productivity and incomes.  

Akhil Bakshi has successfully merged his interest in public service 

and adventure. In 1994, he led the Central Asia Expedition - a 

goodwill mission to Central Asia and Tibet. In 1995-1996, he led the 

Azad Hind Expedition to refresh the national memory with the 

sacrifices made by the soldiers of the Indian National Army in their 

fight for India's liberation. In 1999-2000, he led the expedition 

Hands Across The Borders, a mass contact programme for promoting 

peace and development in South Asia.

A Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, Akhil Bakshi is on the Board 

of several adventure organisations in India. He has written three 

books - The Road to Freedom - Travels Through Singapore, Malaysia, 

Burma and India; Silk Road On Wheels - Travels Through Central Asia, 

Chinese Turkestan and Tibet; and Between Heaven and Hell - Travels 

Through South Asia. He has written several travel articles for 

leading newspapers and magazines, and produced over seventy 

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