Refurbished Blog

Hello Readers!

In the last month, I have made some changes to the blog that you will appreciate. These changes will give you a slightly better visual experience, a newer home page with lots of helpful functionality, better readability, faster search results and ability to easily locate content on the blog.

You can see a teaser preview in this post and for a live feel, you can go directly to the home page.

Refurbished Home Page
The earlier homepage was a summary of the latest posts. The current homepage has lots of pictures, allows you to read content by country, find the latest posts and read according to your area of interest. The older top navigation bar has been retained as it was well received by many of you. I intend to make it more helpful.


The idea was to make the homepage more visual and to bring out the beautiful world travel photos. As a future traveler, you can get to know the story behind the photo by clicking on it. To make this happen, I have put in two photo containers so that you get to see lots of gorgeous travel photos.


You can also selectively read content and see photos by country. This feature was there earlier, but it remained hidden. Now, it is right on the homepage. The top 3 latest blog posts can also be seen in this section.


If you have been reading my blog posts regularly, you will know that I typically write on 6 broad focus areas. These are ‘Travel Tips’, ‘Visas for Indians’, ‘Adventure Travel’, ‘Vegetarian Food’, ‘Wildlife Holidays’ and ‘Unique Cultures’. Earlier, this content was fragmented. Now, everything has been categorized into these 6 broad areas that double up as the blog focus areas and my areas of interest. If you connect with them, you can directly read content under those respective headers.


To read the latest posts on these areas of interest, all you have to do is hover on the respective header. You can continue to read more by clicking on ‘More’.

Faster Search Results



We all know the importance of a good search feature. Keeping that in mind, I have made my earlier search much faster and more accurate. This will help you easily search within my 1500+ blog posts that I have been writing over the last 5 years. It continues to remain on the top right. Do give it a try and discover more of my blog’s hidden treasures.

Cleaner UI for Blog Posts

Earlier, there used to be some clutter in my blog posts with overcrowded side bars and lots of Ads. This time around, I have tried to make it cleaner and give you more interesting content instead of Ads and other trash. The font sizes have gone up, the color theme is uniform and the right side bar shows information that you might be interested in, such as. ‘Related Posts’, ‘Currently Trending Posts’, ‘All Time Favorites’ and the likes.

Request: I would really appreciate if you could give my refurbished blog a look and a try. And do let me know if you have any positive or negative feedback for me. I will try to incorporate those feedback into my next blog update.

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Featured as a Top India Blog

It gives me a lot of pleasure to say that my blog has been voted as one of the top blogs in the Indian blogosphere across all categories. India Travel Blog put me on their platinum list last year too, but this year, the list has shrunk and now I am one of the top 37 platinum bloggers across diverse categories. These kind of features egg me on to write more. Again and as always, thank you for all your support. You have made it happen.




I will aim to create more immersive content for all you travelers out there and hopefully the blog will see a higher ranking.

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Featured as one of the top 51 travel blogs and magazines in India

I am happy to inform you all that ‘BE ON THE ROAD’ has been featured as one of the top 51 travel blogs and magazines in India by Why.Travel, an upcoming online travel platform. The list features many names who I have known personally in the last 5 years. It feels like a family when I see my name in this list. Also, feel proud to get featured as one of the top names in the travel blogging industry in India and this list includes magazines too, which makes it even sweeter.




I thank all you readers and followers for making this possible and I will try to improve my ranking for the next feature!!

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How did I get into blogging?

How did you get into blogging? Why did you start blogging? What inspired you to blog? Who was your blogging inspiration? A lot of people have asked me many such questions in the 4 years since I started blogging. I have always managed to dodge these questions, but I think that today, I should let you all into some of my secrets. It was a venture capitalist who inspired me to blog. Yes, you heard me right! It was not a travel blogger, but a VC whose blog and whose posts motivated me to start one of my own.

It all started back in my sales days when I met Brad Feld, VC and managing director of Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting did not have much in for me as a salesperson, but from that day onwards, I started following Feld Thoughts, Brad’s blog regularly. A lot of people out on the internet blog, but I liked the honest, no crap style of this VC. His organization invests in startup technology companies, which is again, an area of interest for me since I was working in the technology industry. This got me thinking about writing and about doing something that I love. And that is how the first ideas of my travel blog originated. I used to follow Brad’s blog for ideas on technology, a feel for writing naturally and basically sharing your thoughts on something you love doing.

Through Brad, I started following another VC, Mark Suster, who writes on his blog called ‘Both Sides of the Table’. This entrepreneur turned venture capitalist is known for his maverick and daredevil ways of writing. This taught me to be brave with my blogging while staying naturally aggressive. Apart from writing ideas, I regularly check Mark’s blog for startup advice, sales and marketing tips and for his random thoughts on the technology industry.

And from a travel perspective, I am a big fan of Gary Arndt, a travel blogger, who has been traveling around the world for the last 7 years. His blog, Everything Everywhere is one of the top travel blogs on the planet, but I like the unique way in which he goes about his traveling and blogging. He is one of those few travel bloggers who looked to create a brand for himself and stayed away from all link selling and advertising that other travel blogs use to make money. Instead, he created a brand that appealed to travel companies who in turn wished to connect with his brand. Gary is my travel motivator!

Personally, I have learnt a lot from these three gentlemen and their blogs. I intend to continue to learn more from them and hopefully, I will be able to use their advice and tips to make a better future for my blog and the startup ideas that I have been putting into motion.

Even if you do not wish to write a blog, I would recommend you looking up the blogs of these two VCs and the world traveler. Their vibrant thoughts are definitely worth a short read, if not a long one!

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My Interview on 10 Year Itch, A India Travel Blog

It always feels good when you are interviewed. For a short moment, you feel like a celebrity answering a lot of questions . I had a similar session of déjà vu when 10 year itch, a travel blog focusing on India interviewed me about traveling in India. The questions where mainly about me, my blog, my thoughts of traveling in India and my advise for those who want to go out and explore India.

The full interview can be seen here. Hope it lends some insight about my travel life and my thoughts of traveling in India.

Thank you Madhu for hosting this interview on 10 Year Itch.

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