Hi, I am Rayaan Roy Mukherjee hails from Kolkata, The City of Joy. I have completed my graduation with Mass Communication and journalism. Born and brought up in the city, I  have always been concerned about the quality of food that people are consuming. No matter how much people try to incorporate vegetables and ‘organic’ food into their meal, people are somehow consuming hazardous substances along with the vegetables. Further inquired, if these ‘organics’ are really safe to consume? To my surprise, the answer was a No! Even organic food contains soil born bacteria and has shown significant nutritional losses as they are traded from faraway rural fields. I, Rayaan made a detailed research on hydroponic cultivation and did a certified training on this subject. I had built up my expertise on hydroponic cultivation and had a farm set-up and started production. In February 2023, my brainchild Binge Farm Fresh officially got its name and has been looking and trying to fulfill its mission of serving, educating, setting up and empowering people with hydroponic produce and exotic mushrooms ever since. I have been working day and night, around the clock to meet the highest standards of set-up and nutritious produce.

 

I always have the zeal to bring the best version of any innovation.

 

 

 

……And, with that being said, this ‘MEET THE FOUNDER’ Page is going to be a bit different, as I Rayaan also bought out the best in something else, my personal life. I Rayaan Roy Mukherjee underwent Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) and  unleashed my soul that was trapped inside a female body. I wanted to share my personal journey with you all!

 

 

“It has always been a dream since I understood the feeling or presence of being a male or a female. I don't really remember the exact age but I do remember that I have always been dressed up as a boy, playing with boys, and growing up with them. I was born with two siblings, and both happen to be my sisters, but I was not the same as they were, I was different, to be more precise. I was labelled as a tomboy. Though I was merrily enjoying my tomboy attitude, the real hindrances arose when I was in the sixth grade, and started developing my body differently than a boy physically and introduced menstruation a year later. That is when I started hating my body...Something didn't feel right. With time passing by, the feeling of being a male engulfed more within me and on the other hand, being trapped in a female body only made me hate myself more. Furthermore, our society plays a very crucial role in this taboo, the role of paying unnecessary criticism, prying and the audacity to bully, misbehave and make fun of a common emotion which is Love.

 

 

I have been bullied, judged, hated, laughed at, demeaned, looked at curiously as if I'm an alien, forced to wear female clothes, and beaten up for loving a girl. I have bygone all of that. My parents were conservative but they accepted me the way I was, only with the condition of not changing my physical identity. I just wanted to make them understand that it's okay to be what one wants to be and that Love has no race, creed, religion, or sex. Love is Love. After my parents' demise in 2015 at the age of 31 years old, I underwent Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) after which, I finally got the opportunity to live the life I wanted and I didn't miss it for a chance. The only regret would be I will never be able to make my parents see me as what I wanted to be, or they might be seeing me now from Heaven!

 

 

 Since the surgery, a lot has changed, mostly physically. I feel free and I love the presence of my own identity, what truly I am. I no longer feel any extra baggage on my body that needs to be suppressed, I feel more masculine inside and out. I feel myself. Yet there were complications of pain, infections, immunity disorder, weight gain, etc but all that is worth the freedom to live in your own identity. I would suggest and advise more people to come out of the stigma, stand up for themselves and take the step forward to Love themselves first because that's who you'll spend the rest of your life with.”

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“Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself."

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This urge of choosing the best version, also led me to bring out a solution to producing soilless and pesticide free hydroponic cultivation.  With this, I also wish to welcome more beautiful people like myself to work with me in this initiative.

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I, Rayaan voice my support to the LGBTQ+ Community, to transgender community and to the people who still are in the closet or afraid to come out and face the world. I welcome all those wonderful souls with a warm heart to be a part of the Binge Farm Fresh community, where they can start healthy and they can start fresh

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RAYAAN ROY MUKHERJEE

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