India's leading travel bloggers Sandeepa and Chetan began their endeavor by selling their house!

Inspiration comes in little packages and the couple, Sandeepa and Chetan is a perfect example for that. Not everyone can give up the monotony of a secure job and salary to chase their dreams. Sandeepa is an Electronics Engineer while Chetan comes with an advertising and design background. They love traveling with a passion so deep that they left their jobs and even sold their house to journey the world. Sandeepa and Chetan love to travel spontaneously without any specific plan in their mind. They prefer public transport and like homestays better for accommodation. Be it mountains, beaches, islands or deserts, they love it all. When it comes to a big tourist destination, their most loved thing is tiny lanes. Their relatives had varied reactions like “This is amazing. Go for it!” and “What is wrong with you?” These reactions could not belittle their passion for traveling and everyone around them supported them after they realized their seriousness to do this.

They were attracted to each other for the love of travel and nature. For the very first time, they traveled to Coorg in the Western Ghats of India. Their journey included staying in homestays, going on treks and forestwalks with safaris. Overall, they had a wonderful time together.

They have been to every place in India, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. The most interesting part of traveling together is that they can always be with each other.However, with the pros come some cons too. When they had goone to Patagonia, they had a fight because of the exhaustion of non-stop travel and financial constraints. Nonetheless, such petty matters have not stopped them. They have traveled 8 countries together and are looking forward to travel even more. They wish to explore each and every corner of the world. People may call it crazy but that has brought them laurels that people crave for.

Besides traveling, they also pursue photography and their photographs have got featured in publications like National Geographic.

Not only pictures, they have a huge collection of beautiful memories, sweet and funny experiences and knowledge about different cultures.

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India's leading travel bloggers Sandeepa and Chetan began their endeavor by selling their house!

A Ramadan App developed by a Sikh Engineer reached more than 5 lakh downloads!

We live in a world divided by borders and religions. Amidst that inequality, there is a 27 year old mechatronics engineer Kuldeep Singh Saini who developed Ramadan App that helps in knowing the direction of prayer, meal after sunset – iftar, meal before dawn – sehri and prayer timings. What is more intriguing is the fact that it has been installed more than half-a-million times.

Kuldeep Singh Saini is basically from Ahmedabad and has studied in Ganpat University. Once he graduated, he aspired to study design at National Institute of Design. However, he could not make it though he reached the last round of admission procedure two times. Later, he went on to seek a job in mechanical companies but failed in that too. He was attracted to app development during the same period. He was not well versed with coding and was keen on the designing of apps. His brother who has an app development company named App Aspect in Ahmedabad taught coding to Kuldeep. He began his journey with basic utility app development for Android and iOS.

Ramadan 2016

Kuldeep had always been fascinated by the sincerity of the workers at his father’s garage during Ramadan, the Holy Islam festival. He had a desire to simplify it for them. It was in the year 2015 that he started working on a Ramadan App. At the initial stage, he researched religious practices by speaking to the workers in his father’s garage. User Interface and User Experience took him 2 months and the actual coding was completed in the next two months. He launched the app on Google Playstore on 10th May 2015. On the very first day of the fast, he got 53,000 downloads.

  Details about the app

The App included the 2016 Ramadan calendar, namaz prayer times, Qibla Compass, Asma-Al-Husna (99 names of Allah), hijri (Islamic Calendar), hijri date converter, Ramadan duas as well as the sehri and iftar timing. It also allows the user to set alarm for the prayer time.

The app has received immense appreciation from the users and has an ad-free PRO version at Rs. 99. Kuldeep is presently working on a heart-rate monitor, QR code scanner and some other utility apps. Kuldeep aspires to have his own app development company and use technology to resolve the caste differences.

A Ramadan App developed by a Sikh Engineer reached more than 5 lakh downloads!