In February 2025, I introduced my first book on this blog: An Indian Traveler: From Teenage Salesman to Nomadic Globetrotter. Today, I have something new to share about its journey.
The book’s Kindle listing has earned a #1 Best Seller badge in Travel & Holiday Guides on Amazon India. The screenshot accompanying this post records that milestone, alongside a 4.9 out of 5 rating from 70 Amazon ratings.
To everyone who has picked up a copy, recommended it or taken the time to leave a rating: thank you. Publishing these experiences meant letting people I might never meet into some very personal parts of my life. Seeing readers respond has made that decision feel worthwhile.
What Amazon readers are saying
“From the very first page to the last, it felt like I was journeying alongside you, visiting every place you wrote about.”
Temsu, Amazon customer review
“By the end, you’re not just inspired to travel—you’re inspired to live differently.”
Mohammed Khan, Amazon customer review
“I truly hope there’s a sequel in the works—because this is a journey I’d love to continue reading about.”
vijay, Amazon customer review
A solo travel memoir that begins in Mumbai
At sixteen, I sold SIM cards door to door in Mumbai. Before I turned twenty, my brother and I had started our own business. Years later, I began questioning the routine I had worked so hard to build.
That question eventually took me across six continents.
The book follows the uncertainty, friendships and occasional spectacular misjudgements along the way. There is a first Couchsurfing night behind a mysterious door in Central Asia, a canoe in Uganda that refused to go where I wanted, and Himalayan journeys that repeatedly tested my confidence.
If you know my travels through this blog, the memoir connects those experiences with the life that led me to them, including the years before I began travelling solo.
Back in Colombia, with the book
In 2020, I spent nearly six months in Medellin, Colombia during the pandemic quarantine. In 2026, I returned carrying the book.
Holding it in Medellin brought those months back to me. A period when I had no idea what would happen next had become a chapter that other people could read.
If you enjoy true travel stories, unexpected human connections and the question of what makes a fulfilling life, I would love you to join me in these pages.
An Indian Traveler is available in Paperback and Kindle editions.
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What an amazing achievement, knowing a book you have written has helped others and great reviews left alongside. Well done
I love collecting travel books and I have one for each of the countries I visited. The indian traveler book seems awesome, I would love to get it.
I love a good memoir and a good travel book. I’ll definitely be checking this one out. It sounds like a great read.
This sounds like an amazing book! I love the setting. I’ve always wanted to visit that part of the world.
Congrats that’s such an amazing achievement for your book. You should be so proud x
The journey from teenage salesman to travelling across six continents makes this milestone especially meaningful.
The Colombia connection adds another powerful layer to an already remarkable travel memoir.
I remember following your travels, so seeing the book reach this milestone feels genuinely special.
The Medellín photo especially brings the whole journey full circle in a beautiful way.
This is such a good idea! It’s great to have a whole book to referr to.