The erudite legend of Indian hospitality Jamshyd Sethna on a Parsi's Bombay, the unmissable and underrated of the sub-Continent and the wildest place he’s been: a Spice Girls concert

I came to Delhi quite late. I’m a Bombayite by birth, and lived much of my adult life there. When my daughter, Maia, moved to the UK for university, I went too; I’d always promised her I would follow her if she chose that part of the world.

“I kept returning to the mountains,” Jamshyd Sethna, founder of Shakti Himalaya, says. “After I left school. Whenever I had a break in college – we used to get three months off in summer – I used to head off to the mountains, or to Manali, or to Kashmir, or to Nepal. And this was in the early 70s, when the hippies walked around…

amshyd Sethna, founder of Shakti—a luxury homestay company specializing in village walks in the Indian Himalayas—shares the places, rituals, and souvenirs that reveal his travel style.

YOLO Journal: The Navigator. An interview with Jamshyd Sethna, owner and founder of Shakti Himalaya and Banyan Tours