About

Hi, I am Sampath Menon.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I have been maintaining this blog since 2008. The blog has undergone many iterations and domain name changes over the years.

The blog’s focus has also evolved – though I have kept the primary focus on travel, I am shaping this site to also include helpful and inspirational resources around side hustles, passive income, and self-improvement.

I successfully co-founded and helped scale two award-winning Tech startups in my past life. As part of my work, my partners and I have won several national awards, including the 2012 ET Power of Ideas, the Pearson Affordable Learning Cohort, and the Nasscom Social Innovation Honours, to name a few. 

I enjoy travel, street photography and interaction with like-minded people. 

Travel and Street Photography

• Following are some publications that have carried my travel-related articles or featured stories about me. Click the logo images to read the articles.

• Here is a Podcast that features my conversation about Mangalore with Saif and Faiza of ‘The Musafir Stories’. Please check them out for some beautiful travel tales from around India.
• Recently, an image that I clicked was featured on NatGeo, and some of my articles have appeared in leading online magazines, including LiveMint and HuffPo (links below).
• If you would like to buy prints of some of the photos I’ve clicked, please check them out at: https://sampathmk.darkroom.tech/
• Some of my images are available on Shutterstock: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Sampath+Menon

Let us connect

If you find my stories interesting, please feel free to connect.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sampathmk/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyyf5e4DOdnrdNoFdQnD3g
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sampath.menon.7
• Twitter: twitter.com/sampathmenon
• Or leave a comment, and I will reach out to you.

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Disclaimer: All views expressed on this blog are my own. My employer has got nothing to do with any of this.