by sudha pachauridelhi recently delhi has been ranked no1 among 30 indian states for its relative competitiveness in the area of travel and tourism when it comes to mention about delhi most of the people talk about big shopping malls flea markets and different cafes but hardly any one of them know about the safdarjung tomb or town hall in chandni chowka city girl nishtha joshi has opened a new venture named as walkathon tours for creating awareness about in which there are about 19 different types of walk that she conduct from cultural to spiritual learnings of mahatma gandhi in walk the cycle of non violence or heritage walk of old delhi which is the most famous where mughals roamed and many more such themed based walks to discover the history and stories the love for this city delhi is not something new to me from second year of my graduation i realized that my batch mates were completely unaware of the cultural heritage that their own city possess so i initially started exploring these hidden gems in the city and started extensively reading and talking to people about their history to gain more knowledge of heritage places said nishtha within few months she started conducting walks for different school and college and approached students and motivated them to join for the walk which lasts from 34 hours in which extensively talk about the history culture and real flavor of one particular place delhis hidden treasury of pottery is one such walk where our guests try their hands at the art of pottery making and talk to the people in kumhar village near uttam nagar rather than spending their day in malls or cafes they sip in some evening tea with them and get the rural taste and real flavor of our cultural heritageapart from that nishta tries to do something for the people who are residing there and sort of creating some economic opportunity for them so that they can be benefitedthere are number of things that can be done easily and can be started from the very basic level that is educational institutions small competitions should be conducted so that children can use their creativity other things that can be done for financial interest in heritage conservation said she