Things I Cannot Live Without | Sheetal Thakur, founder, Freedom2BE

Staple feast: I have to eat rice, dal and yoghurt for one meal every day.

Exercise junkie: I run every evening for an hour. I’ll only exercise indoors if it’s raining.

Not without melody: I can’t drive without my music system’s remote in my hand.

Trigger-happy: My Canon SLR travels with me everywhere. I love photographing nature.

A new set of wheels: I’d love to have a Honda CRV. It gives you great command. 

Left to her, Sheetal Thakur, the founder of Freedom2BE, a tour company exclusively for women, would dump her camera and laptop in her five-year-old car, and make a home in the Himalayas. A nature buff, she says her car was the “best thing to have happened to her.”  The icy-blue Maruti has travelled with her everywhere, even up to Lahaul Spiti. Thakur is now readying it for a Himalayan car rally. Having grown up playing sports like cricket and volleyball, she now gets her outdoors  kick from exploring hidden trails in the Sahyadri range around Pune, where she recently shifted to after 15 years in Delhi. She’ll need the stamina going ahead, as she plans a wide range of off-the-grid tours for women travellers.