Imagine being wrongly jailed as a fall guy for an employer you just started with. Chetan Mahajan was. Scared but defiant, Chetan decided to turn this lemon into lemonade. He maintained a diary of even this darkest phase of his life (Literally. The power supply in Indian jails is terrible). He then converted his two fat otebooks full of scribbles - no laptops in jail - into a compelling book. Penguin published “The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail” to critical acclaim.
After his 1-month jail stint, Chetan cleared his name & went back to the familiar. He was hired to run a business for an Indian corporation but it gave him little joy. When the city Gurgaon air caused breathing problems for his son, the family of four left the city and moved to a village in the Himalayas. The move was great for his family, but Chetan had to start rebuilding life from scratch.
Chetan combined his passions - entrepreneurship, writing, teaching and the Himalayas, and created the Himalayan Writing Retreat (www.himalayanwritingretreat.com ). What started off as an experiment has now become a successful lifestyle business with participants from over 5 countries, many of whom travel from around the globe. Chetan’s blog (www.uncityblog.wordpress.com ) about his life in a Himalayan Village won the indiblogger award for Humor in 2017.