Rachit is the epitome of positivity and a fountain of energy. His mantra has always been to try different things and he has not let his disability stop him from achieving his dreams and aiming high.
An ardent adventure enthusiast and highly skilled single-handed cyclist, no terrain is too tough for him to take on. Rachit has cycled from Manali to Khardung La—one of the world’s highest motorable roads at 18,000ft, toured the Nilgiris (across three states) in just 6 days, and completed the 200km and 300km BRM in April and May 2019 respectively. He also enjoys trekking and has scaled Kheer Ganga twice at 13,000ft. Apart from outdoor adventure sports, he loves playing football, cricket, chess, and table tennis.
A strong advocate of inclusion, Rachit hosted the Indian Inclusion Summit, an international conference held every year to focus on the need for creating inclusion in our society, in the year 2014. In June 2019, Rachit was invited to be on the Super Idol Panel—Stories of Change and Empowerment, at the Sarthak NAAI West Zone Regional Abilympics, Mumbai. The Abilympics event was hosted with the aim of sensitizing and urging corporates to adopt inclusion and diversity policies and initiatives.
He was also one of the panelists at the Vividh Diversity Job Fair 2019 held in Mumbai, a first of its kind Indian diversity focused career fair that brings candidates of all genders, sexualities, ages, and disabilities together with employers who are interested in creating work environments that value and promote workforce diversity.
Rachit is far from a one-trick pony. He worked as an Assistant Director for Candy Flip, a film that was released on Netflix in 2019. Rachit has also worked in a post-production capacity for such films like Black Panther, The Avengers, Antman 2, Zero, and so on.
A PedalX speaker, his story of courage, strength, grit, and optimism has been highlighted in leading publications and online media, including Humans of Bombay, The Better India, Pedal Pal, East Mojo, and Huffington Post, among others. For Rachit, life will always be beautiful no matter how hard the going gets. In fact, he more often than not jokes about his “missing limb” and is living proof of the maxim that nothing in this world is a limitation. From being a barman to working for an Italian chef, he chooses to make most of life and its opportunities.
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