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DelhiByCycle is an initiative founded by Dutchman Jack Leenaars in 2009. As the former South Asia correspondent for De Telegraaf Jack started early in the morning on his cycle to discover the back lanes of Delhi. From a couple of participants on his first expeditions, the cycling tours have become a full hit in Delhi’s streets. Unique, green and most important, it’s a project with a soul. Each time Jack is on this bike he gets inspired by the streets of Delhi and can’t stop a bright smile on his face.
Jack and his family including his wife Noreen, their son Pjotr and their two daughters Mali and Juul live together with a dog and a cat in Jangpura.
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Anjuli is our General Manager and tour guide. She finished her master degree in Culture Management in Germany 2010. During her studies she had many times the opportunity to visit India for study and research purposes.
Being a keen traveller she already saw many parts of the country and yet she still wants to see and learn much more about India.
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Ula, from Poland, is our Office Manager and a guide. She lived in India before and now she is back to explore more. She would like to develop her skills in active tourism and tour guiding. Her free time is spent on reading, travelling, learning and understanding foreign cultures and societies. |
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Maitrayee is our Indian link in the office. Moved from Assam to Delhi for graduation, she studied sociology from Miranda House, Delhi University, and then moved to Hyderabad for MBA. Loves travelling and loves food;her latest fad: guess what? cycling! |
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Mukesh: reliable and friendly. Excellent co-guide (= the guy at the back of the group) he has been with us from the early beginning. Loves chocolate cookies at the chai break. We love his disarming smile. Prahlad: From a little village in Chhatisgarh (Central India), to a flowerist's in New Delhi and now a co-guide at DelhiByCycle, Prahlad had finally seems to have found his groove! Quiet and dependable, he is always there to greet us and our clients with a wide smile! Both Mukesh and Prahlad also work for our partner Cards4U. |
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Kailash, Ajay and Raju: 3 other co-guides with a unique background. DelhiByCycle doesn't want to be a cycle tour only, as daily guests of Delhi we face lots of dramatic scenes. For example street children who are forced to sleep just a few meters from our meeting point. That's why we decided to offer a job opportunity to these kids. They all lived at Salaam Baalak, a ngo offering hundreds of these kids living in and around New Delhi station a future. Kailash, Ajay, Raju,and Ram are 4 of them and we are proud they have become part of our team. |
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Shruti was bitten by the film bug quite early in life and the childhood filmy dream got translated into her setting up her own production house Samsara Productions. Part time guide and full time film maker is how she can best be described. Besides watching films and making them one thing that she enjoys the most is meeting all kinds of people and having an engaging conversation with them. Her favorite pass times are watching movies, going for a walk, reading and voicing her thoughts on paper. Currently three of her favorite pastimes travelling, films and writing take up all her time. |
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Arpita is a dynamic and fun loving Indian woman with international exposure. With her extensive knowledge on the city and India in general, Arpita manages to entertain all our guests ! Next to DBC, she is a film maker with focus on documentary movies.
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If there ever was a passionate mountain bike-riding-chef-by training who could lead a bicycle tour happily all seven days of the week and make sure every one goes back with a smile on their faces – Akarsh it is! A hospitality industry entrepreneur, born and brought up in Delhi, Akarsh brings with him an intimate knowledge of the streets of Delhi and its gastronomic delights along with an adventurous background in mountain biking, trekking, motor biking. |
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Anja, originally from Germany, has been living in Delhi for just over a year. A geographer by profession, she came here with her family after living and travelling in different countries in Africa and Asia. Her passion lies with two-wheelers, ranging from bicycle to scooter and motorbike, in India of course with her Enfield Bullet! When she doesn’t guide tourists through the streets of Delhi she uses her time to work on her Master degree in GIS. |
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Bert is a Dutch guide who lives in Delhi with his family, wife Ayesha and his three kids, Sela, Jari and Feda. He lives here for over 3 years now and really enjoys Delhi. He loves to play football, tennis, hiking and travelling around the globe. As all Dutch he has been grown up with cycling. He finds cycling through the streets of Delhi the best experience in town! |
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Shashank is an independent ecologist and cartographer who works with NGOs across India. He likes cycling in cities, and goes rambling in the Himalayas whenever he can. |
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Shashi is our very happy and ever smiling guide! A human rights lawyer with international exposure, he loves reading and writing and always has himself updated about whats happening in the world, and history (little surprise he is on our team) |
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Tenzin is our guide with a rich Tibetan and Indian background. He has been born and brought up in India and lived most part of his life in south India, growing up and for studies in Karnataka state and then moved to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh for couple of years. He moved to Delhi around 9 years back and have worked in few fields such as accounts, marketing and travel firm. |
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Jaspreet came from Uttar Pradesh to pursue graduation in Computer Science from the Delhi University. He is our only legal link, having interned in the Legislative Research Sector and also currently pursuing Law! And though we have people protesting against it, he claims to be the the least traveled of all in the DelhiByCycle team! |
