TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR, 2025 (TRAVMEDIA ASIA)

I am a freelance journalist from India, currently living in Malaysia and reporting from both south and southeast Asia.

My byline appears regularly in National Geographic, South China Morning Post, BBC Travel, BBC Culture, Lonely Planet, Adventure.com, The National, The Christian Science Monitor, Nikkei Asia, Robb Report, Conde Nast Traveller and Forbes, among other publications.

Among other things, I write on travel, food, books, arts and culture, gender and development issues, environment, wildlife and sustainability. In my spare time, I write journal notes, to-do lists and contentious tweets.