About Traveler Talez
​​Traveler Talez documents lesser-known places across India through firsthand travel narratives and professional photography.
The focus is on slow, immersive journeys supported by clean editorial design and an ad-free reading experience. Stories here prioritise depth, accuracy, and context over volume or trends.
Since May 2025, Traveler Talez has followed a hub and spoke editorial structure where long-form journeys feed into Quick Guides, Itineraries, and Behind the Shot narratives.
Editorial standards align closely with Google EEAT and Helpful Content principles, especially for guides meant to be used on the road.​
All About Me
Hi, I'm Subhashish Chatterjee, the human behind Traveler Talez.
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Travel, for me, has never been an occasional escape. It has been a constant presence from the very beginning. As an infant, I undertook an 800-kilometre journey with my family. That early movement set the tone for a life shaped by movement.
My father’s transferable job meant growing up across different regions of India, absorbing landscapes, cultures, and ways of life along the way.
A long corporate career followed, one that kept me moving across cities and regions, extending the rhythm of travel into working life. By my mid twenties, I had lived in 15 cities across 10 Indian states.
Travel was never about ticking destinations. I was always drawn to landscapes, mountains, forests, coastlines, and places where the environment shapes daily life.
In 2016, my first solo journey along the Konkan coast marked a turning point. That trip clarified something fundamental. Travel was not a hobby running alongside work. It was central to how I understood the world and myself. Writing became a way to document these experiences, and blogging followed naturally.
​Photography entered the picture as an extension of travel, not as an end in itself. Early images were captured on a phone, simply to record places.
Over time, landscapes like Spiti Valley deepened my interest in composition, balance, and light. Photography gradually shifted from documentation to a craft I wanted to hone.
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The pandemic years brought an unexpected pause. Living alone in Mumbai for months, I redirected that time into studying photography in depth. Books, long-form learning, and sustained practice shaped my approach.
During this period, I recognised the need to build a professional path around visual storytelling, even if it meant stepping away from a stable corporate role.
I worked in the technology industry for over 17 years, through April 2025, largely within large corporate environments and later as an independent consultant. My roles spanned digital transformation, program management, strategy, and artificial intelligence. In 2020, I stepped away from full-time corporate employment. This was not a rejection of technology, but a conscious shift in how I wanted to work and travel.
By 2021, I entered a digital nomad phase, combining travel with consulting work across technology, AI, and strategy. Travel and work no longer existed as separate pursuits. Each informed the other.
That same year, I began working with the Nikon Z7, using it to deepen my engagement with landscapes, architecture, and wildlife. Field experience revealed both creative possibilities and technical limits, which later led to upgrading to the Nikon Z8 for wildlife and action-driven environments. Each equipment decision followed time in the field, not trends. The focus has always remained on reliability, observation, and patience.
Wildlife photography became a more serious pursuit from 2022 onward. Early failures and missed moments taught restraint and preparation. Over multiple seasons across Kanha, Panna, Satpura, and Gir, photography evolved into a disciplined practice shaped by waiting, learning, and returning.
During this phase, I began using Generative AI tools, starting with ChatGPT in 2022. My long-standing background in technology and AI strategy shaped how I approached these tools.
I use AI to assist with research, structure, and clarity, particularly for guides and itineraries. Field experience, observation, and judgement continue to drive every piece of work.
In May 2025, I shifted to working full-time on Traveler Talez. This marked a deliberate move from a personal archive to a structured editorial platform.
The site now follows a hub-and-spoke model, where long-form journeys form the foundation and feed into Quick Guides, Itineraries, and Behind the Shot narratives.
This structure allows destinations to be explored deeply while remaining useful to travellers with limited time.
Traveler Talez remains intentionally slow. It reflects how I travel and how I believe travel writing should be built. Every piece is grounded in lived experience, careful observation, and respect for context.
To explore the journeys so far, the Where I Have Been page is the best place to begin. It features an interactive India map, allowing you to navigate stories by state. Over time, state-specific Quick Guides and Itineraries will be integrated there.
If you wish to share feedback, context, or corrections, you can reach me through the contact page linked on this site.