The Indian Bucket ListThe Indian Bucket List — curated by Madhav Rathore
Travel that gives back — communities of India

Travel that
gives back.

A quiet, parallel journey — five years, one promise, thousands of childhoods.

Five Years. One Promise.

3,700+

children sponsored across Telangana over the last five years.

Where the Work Reaches

Quiet, daily, durable.

Education

School fees, uniforms and books for over 3,700 children across rural Telangana — every single year.

Daily Meals

Hot, nourishing meals on every school day — because no child should choose between a class and a meal.

Communities

Working with village schools and local custodians, so the support reaches the families who need it most.

The Why

Because the journey isn't only ours to make.

For five years, a quiet, parallel journey has run alongside The Indian Bucket List — one that doesn't get photographed for the feed, doesn't end in postcards, and doesn't ask for a single tagged location.

In villages and small towns across Telangana, Mr. Madhav Rathore has been sponsoring the education of over three thousand seven hundred children — paying for books, uniforms, meals, and a future that doesn't begin and end at the doorstep of their birth.

We believe travel — real travel — is a form of debt. To the land, to the people who host you, and to the futures that quietly hold the door open as you pass through. This is one small way to repay it.

Mr. Madhav Rathore handing out books and stationery to schoolchildren at a village school
Book & Uniform Distribution · Village School

Moment of the Year

Books, first.
Everything else follows.

Every academic year begins the same way — trestle tables in a school courtyard, stacks of textbooks tied in ribbon, and a queue of children who now have everything they need for the year ahead.

3,700+

Children

05

Years Running

"Travel is only meaningful when it leaves the world a little kinder than it found it."