Biography

After completing her graduation, Shivya Nath started her career as a social media strategist at Singapore Tourism Board, where she learned about social networking and started following Travel bloggers across the globe.While working in Singapore, she participated in a Facebook contest by AirAsia and won two return tickets to Paris. She took a two-month off her work and spent the first month of her leave; travelling in Europe, and spent the other, volunteering to develop responsible tourism alternatives in the cold mountain desert of Spiti, located in Indias northern Himalayas.After her two-month trip ended, she returned to Singapore, only to quit her 9-to-5 job; as she says, in her words, In those two months, I saw, experienced and lived more than I ever had before, and decided to quit my first and only corporate job with a dream of travelling the world on my own terms..After quitting her job, she lived off her savings in the first six months and then began working as a freelance writer and social media consultant.In 2012, she found her tourism and travel company called India Untravelled..In 2019, she launched her travel clothing line The Shooting Star Collection..She has worked a freelance writer for BBC Travel, Lonely Planet India, National Geographic Traveller India, Conde Nast Traveller India, The Huffington Post, The Times of India, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, and CNNGo.She has been featured in various publications including Conde Nast Traveller, The Washington Post, Vogue, Times of India, Huffington Post, WordPress Discover, and BBC Travel.Her Instagram is filled with the post of vegan food and restaurants and also her travel journey.