Founder

Manoj Hadwale

Founder

Manoj Hadwale, Born on 15th June 1984 at Rajuri village, tahsil-Junnar, Dist- Pune, Maharashtra, India; belongs to a farmers’ family, did his post-graduation in agriculture. Further, he worked for farmers at farmer suicide issues in the Vidarbha region through the microfinance & banking sector. In 2010, he left his job from the state bank of India as an agriculture officer with the vision of sustainable tourism development in India. His thinking & understanding about Indian agriculture, heritage, culture, tourism, community, people & their sustainable development is remarkable. He is expressing his tourism philosophy through training to the students, corporate, farmers & government officers, through writing in magazines, newspapers, in regular columns, blogs, social media, through participating in several seminars, etc.

In June 2018, Manoj wrote a book in the Marathi language by name “कृषी पर्यटन-एक शेतीपूरक व्यवसाय” which is published by Sakal publication. He is perusing his passion for the promotion of sustainable tourism through training, consultancies, participating as a creative partner in the private & government sector as well.

According to him, India is an agrarian country. Near about half of the population is depending on agriculture for employment, which contributes not more than 20% in GDP. In India, agriculture is not the only occupation but is it culture, tradition, way of living, source of food, part of the economy, and many more. India is a country of villages as more than 65% population is still residing in villages. Biodiversity with oceans, rivers, mountain ranges, flora fauna, plant & animal kingdom, heritage with forts, caves, temples, prehistoric & historic sites, traditions, customs, rituals, colorful festivals, folk culture, entertainment events, people, versatile culture with food, festivals & funfair..and many more which still realizing with the time being are the livingness of India.

With this vision, in 2011, he initiated a tourism movement in his native region, Junnar, which is popular by name, “Junnar Tourism Model”.

Namrata Hadwale

Creative Director

Namrata born & bought up in Pune but with her passion to be close to nature, she decided to get involve & to be a creative company of Manoj, forever. After 3 yrs friendship, Namrata got married to Manoj & became a part of Parashar Agri & Culture Tourism. She is an artist; she did her fine arts from Pune. All are the creative things you can find at Parashar are from Namrata’s hand. At the same time, she has a close eye in the kitchen too. Both Namrata & Manoj, with the entire team of Parashar, all they are trying to plan something unique & exciting for their guests. That’s why, Parashar Agri & Culture Tourism has repeat guests..like a family member. To express & explore the creativity of guests, Namrata has created a platform by name, Srujan Art Gallery. Here the expression of art, with different forms like canvas painting, coffee painting, fabric painting, natural painting on the piece of bamboo, stone, wooden lag, clay, etc, handmade paper painting and many more forms like folk drawing of Warli Painting[tribal art]