About Soul Sanchari
Travel that slows you down enough to notice.
Soul Sanchari is an independent travel publication on India's roads, cultures and seasons, and the places beyond. It is written for people who love stories.
We believe roads, weather, food, architecture, language and memory shape a place more than any checklist of sights. So we go slowly, listen first and say where our information comes from.
Editorial standards
How we work.
We go, and we say so
We tell you when we have visited, when we were hosted and when a story comes from a reader.
Consent and credit
People are asked before they are photographed or quoted, and contributors are named.
Numbers with sources
When we use data we link it, show the table and say what it cannot tell us. See an example.
We correct in public
Mistakes are fixed on the page with a dated note. Tell us if we got it wrong.
The editor
Atul Krishnan
Founder and editor
I started Soul Sanchari because most travel writing tells you what to tick off, and very little tells you how a place actually works: when the rain comes, who keeps the shrine, what the road does after the ghat ends. I wanted to write the slower version of that, and to say where every fact came from.
I come to travel from a background in data and connected technology, so I count things first and then go and stand in the place to see what the numbers miss. The stories here pair the two: a field guide you can use on the road and, where it helps, the data behind it, with sources and corrections in public.
I would like readers to leave with fewer places on their list and a better reason for each one.
This season: the Theyyam field guide, a data story on why most of Kerala's visitors never reach the north, monsoon notes from Mahabaleshwar and a summer road to Sonamarg.
Corrections