By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net

Bhopal : Adventurous ambitions and a very strong will to conquer has no limits and can lead man to scale dizzy heights in his life time.

This adventurous will power is seeing Ramchandra Bishwas of eastern Indian city Kolkatta pedalling his way for the last 25 long years visiting all nook and corner of the globe to spread the message of peace and love across the world. He wants his name to be registered in the Guinness Book of World Records by covering 600,000 kilometers. This "man on bicycle" has
strong belief in brotherhood and love.

Bishwas, a photo-journalist, has earlier worked as a post staff.

The 54-year-old Bishwas claims to be the world's most travelled bicycle tourist. He has travelled 156 countries including Africa, South, Central and North America, Caribbean Island, East and West Europe, Russia, Alaska, Greenland, Siberia of South and North poles etc. Now he can speak 10 languages and has honorary citizenship of four countries. Over the years he
had changed four bicycles but his sinewy legs are not yet weary. His legs are still pumping the pedal, taking him to diverse destinations.

Bishwas has logged 5,08,200 kilometers, that is almost pretty more than a return journey from the moon. He has visited almost 264 cities and also exotic places like-The South and North Pole, Amazon and Seven Wonders of the World.

He said, "Every country has its own culture, language and food. People with good and bad attitude are everywhere, but I never met any adverse condition. I got love and respect from all the countries that I visited."

He plans to wrap up his expedition in his motherland India by 2010 after covering the remaining 24 countries.

Bishwas, who has pedaled here his way into Bhopal, the city of lakes and mosques in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on his long drawn journey, says that he was inspired by a hermit in West Bengal's Bardhaman district, to do something different. He decided to travel the world by his bicycle.

He displays a 129-feet long passport, the appraisal letters from more than 70 countries. He had met late Pope John Paul II, late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and many Nobel Prize winners, celebrities of different countries.

"What is life? We come to the earth empty-handed and will leave it in the same fashion at death. So, why all this war and jealousy?", he philosophically says.

Reflecting his view Bishwas said:" The world itself does not have any problem. It is we who create the problem. If all us follow the dictum of live and let live there will be no problem. I have sacrificed my life conveying the message of peace and brotherhood against nuclear war, terrorism, drugs, divorce and injustice."

Meanwhile, Bishwas called on the Madhya Pradesh Governor Dr. Balram Jakhar at Raj Bhavan on Friday.

Dr. Jakhar while extending good wishes to Bishwas said that this expedition would turn out to be successful as it is a must to restore peace an harmony in view of the prevailing circumstances world over. Bishwas narrated his memoirs to the Governor Dr. Jakhar on the occasion. (pervezbari2eth.net)