To set up an interview, work with me or engage me as a speaker, please email me at shivyanath@gmail.com.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Awarded gold for best communicator at the WTM Responsible Tourism Awards India (2020)
- Featured by National Geographic Traveler (global edition) among travellers of color smashing stereotypes (2020)
- Featured by Conde Nast Traveller among Instagram accounts to follow if you care about the planet (2020)
- Featured by The Washington Post among travel influencers changing the way we think of the world (2019)
- Featured by Travel+Leisure India among Indian women to follow on Instagram (2019)
- Awarded silver for best writing in a travel blog at TBC Asia Awards (2018)
- Featured in Vogue India magazine among 4 Instagram travel accounts to fuel your wanderlust (2018)
- Featured on Passion Passport among Instagram’s most inspiring environmentalists (2018)
- Quoted on Times of India in a story on sustainable travel within India (2018)
- Featured on The CSR Journal among social media influencers in CSR
- Featured on the cover of National Geographic Traveller magazine (2017)
- Featured on The Good Trade among visual storytellers using Instagram to inspire global community and kindness (2017)
- Speaker at TEDx (FMS, New Delhi) on living a nomadic life (2016)
- Interviewed by Responsible Travel on making conscious travel choices (2016)
- Featured on Huffington Post for one of India’s best Instagram accounts (2016)
- Featured on WordPress Discover on how to blog your way around the world (2016)
- Featured on YourStory among top Indian bloggers who make a living through blogging (2016)
- Featured twice as an intrepid traveller on the front page of The Times of India (Sunday paper; 2015), India’s leading national daily
- Voted Best Indian Travel Blogger by Vogue India (2015)
- Featured among the Top 3 Best Asian Travel Blogs by Go Desti (2015)
- Featured among India’s top 60 digital achievers at the Digital Women Awards (2015)
- WINNER: India’s Best Young Social Media Professional at CMO Asia Awards (2014)
- Featured on BBC Travel (2014)
- Interviewed on NDTV, India’s leading news channel (2014)
- WINNER: Best Indian Travel Blogger at Indian Blogger Awards (2013)

FEATURES
The Washington Post
Globe-trotting Instagram influencers are changing the way we think about the world. Who are they?
What happens when a travel influencer can’t travel?
National Geographic Traveler (global)
Travellers of color smashing stereotypes
National Geographic Traveller India
Shivya Nath’s Home Has No Address
BBC Travel
I quit my job to travel: The social media addict
Conde Nast Traveller India
Instagram accounts to follow if you care about the planet
Travel+Leisure
Indian Women Travel Bloggers You Should Follow on Instagram
Meet Travel Blogger Shivya Nath, India’s Very Own Shooting Star
Live Mint
She quit her job to live life off the beaten track
Money plans for your short journeys and long travels
Eats shoots and leaves: The art of travelling as a vegetarian
Indian Express
Have travel restrictions quelled wanderlust?
Economic Times
Quint
Video: Travel blogger Shivya Nath’s Incredible Life Journey
Vogue
India magazine: Best Travel Accounts on Instagram
India magazine: Best Indian Travel Blogger
The Times of India
Sunday Times: Why tourists are greening their vacation
Sunday Times: Footloose femmes
Front page, Sunday Paper: Success on your terms
Front page, Sunday Paper: Travel your way
Sunday Paper: Flying solo
Times Life: What’s age got to do with it?
NDTV
Heads Up Show: Unconventional career choices
India Today
New ways of making money: Story of a traveller
Business Insider
Travelling the world and yet earning money: Read the fascinating story of this Indian blogger
YourStory
How much do India’s top bloggers make?
How Shivya Quit Her Job, Traveled The Globe, and Started Up ‘IndiaUntravelled’
The Good Trade
10 Visual Storytellers Using Instagram To Inspire Global Community & Kindness
The Huffington Post
These Stunning Indian Instagram Accounts Deserve Your Attention Right Now
WordPress Discover
How to Blog Your Way Around The World: A Conversation with Shivya Nath
Passion Passport
Instagram’s Most Inspiring Environmentalists
The CSR Journal
Social Media Influencers in CSR
Responsible Travel
Economic Times
Why more and more young Indian women & men are embarking on unconventional journeys
Femina
Featured on Femina’s 35 Under 35 Power List
Featured as a travel expert for Project Bliss: Going Solo
The Hindu
Interviewed on my life as a digital nomad: Say Hello to India’s Digital Nomads
Interviewed on how and why I travel for a living: Journey to Freedom
Featured in a story on alternate careers in India: Chasing Dreams
Cover story: Location Independent
Hindustan Times
Featured in a story on offbeat monsoon escapes: Chasing the Rains in Remote India
New Woman India
Featuring the story of how I quit my job to travel: Wandering Soul: Shivya Nath
The Better India
Green Influencers: Here’s How You Too Can Minimalise Down to Just 2 Bags!
GoAir Inflight Magazine
Cover story: Interview on being a digital nomad and author
Business Standard
Featured in a story on new age travellers: Letting The Travel Bug Bite
DNA
Featured in a story on travel blogging: Blog It
Quoted in a story on volunteer travel: The Samaritan with a Suitcase
Travel Wire Asia
The reality of life as a travel blogger
The Tribune, Pakistan
The Notepad: Top five blogs we love to follow
Culture Trip
The Most Popular Travel Bloggers from India
Tripoto
10 Indian Instagrammers To Follow When You Need Intense Travel Vibes
iDiva
Indian Instagram Accounts That Are Giving Us Serious Travelspiration
Polka Cafe
Featured: 10+ Instagram Accounts to Get Bitten By The Travel Bug
Gulf Weekly
Quoted in a story on ‘Discover Bahrain’: A Peek into Bahrain’s History and Culture
Women’s Web
Running a Business While on The Road
Thrillophilia
8 Indian Travel Bloggers You Should Follow on Twitter
RECOGNITION
Awarded gold for best communicator at the Indian Responsible Tourism Awards by Outlook Traveller (2020)
Awarded silver for best writing in a travel blog at TBC Asia Awards (2018)
Featured on a Forbes’ journalist list of 50 Indian Women to Follow on Twitter
Featured among ScoopWhoop’s 15 Indian Photographers to Follow on Instagram
Featured at #3 on Go Desti’s Best Asian Travel Blogs 2015
Featured among India’s top 60 digital achievers at the Digital Women Awards 2015
INTERVIEWS
Responsible Travel
Folks we love – Shivya Nath: Sold her possessions to travel the world at 23 and lives a nomadic life
Eco Trunk
Beating all odds: Been on the road for 3 years without a home, she travels solo and eats only vegan
Daily Travel Show
Podcast: Shivya Nath’s Life of Travel
102.6 FM Rainbow All India Radio
Interviewed on the City Lights Show by RJ Anup Kaur
India.com
Shivya Nath: More Than Just a Travel Blogger
Indian Top Blogs
What makes Shivya Nath a successful travel blogger
Expedia
Waving Goodbye to Corporate Life
Women’s Web
An interview on India Untravelled: Shivya Nath: The Travel Entrepreneur
Skype Blogs
Why a Top Travel Blogger Won’t Leave Home Without These 5 Things
Social Samosa
Influencers speak about misplaced industry fundamentals
Shenomics
Capturest
Learn the Rule of Photography, Then Break Them: Shivya, Blogger
The Midnight Blue Elephant
Interview on planning your first trip to India
Backpacks & Bunkbeds
Cookie Sound
Shivya, just wanted to say that one who follows her passion is one who really lives life. Glad you are living your life! Keep going..
I have just one sentence for you..
“You are an Inspiration” 🙂
I’m more like Walter Mitty… and i think its time for me to keep you as my role model.!
Haha! You have some awesome adventures ahead of you then 🙂 Don’t forget me when you head to Greeland!
Hi Shivya, so glad I came across your blog 🙂 Reading about your travel, achievements, and experiences is awesome. The travel bug bit me when I first went on bike-trip to the mesmerizing Ladakh…i became greedy from there on. Where are you heading next? Keep traveling keep writing! bon voyage 🙂
A shooting star!
Commendable achievement, Miss Shivya
Hats off!
Wow! Take a bow lady. You are amazing.
This is indeed an achievement. Congratulations. I am totally hooked onto your blog. What’s in store for you for 2016 ?
Its great to see a person travelling and living their dreams. I hope that someday, I could visit the place of my dreams. Congratulations on all your achievements!
One of my friend considers you as his inspiration, he’d love to travel around the world someday. Any tips for him?
Wow, what a life Shivya! Envy you, but of course, you are an inspiration!
I found this blog from Google and after that, bookmarked it and keep coming back for more reading. Truly inspiring and entertaining.
Shivya you are my inspiration but still cannot get myself to travel alone 🙁
Hi shiya I so happy after seen your blog ……. I m totally inspired
Truly inspiring.