Reshmi has worked in the print and online media for 14 years. She started her career with The Asian Age in Mumbai before moving on to work with Channel [V], India Abroad News Service and Femina magazine in Delhi. She has travelled extensively both in India and overseas on work and holidays and is rather convinced that between the beach and mountains, she is a confirmed beach person. Since 2005, she has worked as a freelance writer in Bangalore, writing features focused on lifestyle, health, social issues and trends. She loves travel and photography, though these days, with two kids in tow, it's the diaper bag and not the camera that's her constant companion.She can be reached at reshmi@gmail.com

Born in Pune, India, Rashi is a North Indian by lineage, but a South Indian at heart. Having been a Media Planner for over 4 years, Rashi has lived the 12-hour (sometimes even 13 or 14) drudgery that life in Mumbai brings as well as enjoyed the robust yet appropriate ad agency experience that Bangalore boasts of. Yet all this time she hasn’t let go of her one innate passion – Traveling.A snap-happy person, somewhere along the way Rashi had a tryst with a Canon SLR camera and here awoke her second love – Photography.

These two combined with her third hobby of writing make her a perfect feather to add into our hat! Want to invite her along on your expedition?

Write to her at rashi.9984@gmail.com and we're quite sure she’ll jump at the opportunity.

Born in Mumbai, India, Kanika Nagpal employed photography as a positive agent of expression in 06. In the wake of her passion for the medium she held a month long exhibition in Mumbai that was received positively and moved on to learn the technical aspects in a private course. In 07′ she was further encouraged with a ‘Canon Merit Award’ at the ‘Exhibit A’ Annual Fine Art Exhibition held by the Photographers Guild of India (PGI). This supported and re-enforced her desires to progress in this field.

To sustain her consistent passion for music, Kanika covered over 58 Indian bands and artists while working as concert photographer with the music club Bluefrog in Mumbai and photographed artist portfolios for internationally recognized musicans while simultaneously working on solo projects and travelling to villages around India.

Kanika can be reached at sleepymaggie@gmail.com and her website is www.sleepymaggie.com

Tanika has always enjoyed travelling and has globetrotted extensively. Her passion for writing and photography has been main reason for this association with Terrainspotter. Tanika started her career in Media but after 4 years, she is now looking at taking up her own enterpreunial ventures.She can be reached at tanika.jalan@gmail.com

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan is a daily traveller. Every day he travels 40 km from home to office in Mumbai, first in a bus and then train, and makes the return journey home. But sometimes his wanderlust takes him away from his copywriting job on trips to unknown corners of India. His travel philosophy is to go to places where others have barely gone before. With Francis Younghusband for a hero, he prefers visiting the Himalaya. He was an avid trekker, till the combined effect of one too many vada-paos caught up with him. When not travelling, he likes writing about food and travel. And don't ask him about poetry. He can be reached at iambecomedeath@gmail.com.

Shanya Rehman Alam has been writing for as long as she can remember. A Journalism graduate from the Delhi University, Shanya has worked with names likes The Indian Express (Delhi), The Times of India and DNA (Mumbai). The passion of writing only found fuel when she discovered her love for travel. Born of her regular road trips with her father, her love for visiting new places and experiencing new lifestyles grew well into her adult years. An ardent reader, the one thing always jutting out of her travel bag is a book. She enjoys reading on overnight train journeys the most however, that happens less often than she would prefer. Her equally travel-happy husband has ensured that her road trips have only increased in the last few years and she has more trips and tips to share every month owing to her impromptu weekend trips. You can direct your queries or simply get in touch with her at shanyaalam@gmail.com.

Nidhi’s interest in travel was ignited during her 7 year stint at McKinsey & Co. Equally enthusiastic hubby and daughter added fuel to this fire. She loves ticking off places that she has visited, both global and domestic, on the map and in travel books. Now taking a break from work and being a full time mother, she is the one responsible for finding long weekends well in advance so that the family can do what they enjoy doing the most, TRAVEL. Her favourite part of all this travel is carrying back the specialities of the places visited; be it ‘Aam Papad’ from Amritsar or a Venetian mask from Venice or a piece of lace work from Brugge, Belgium. Nidhi can be reached at nidhi76.chawla@gmail.com

Having worked with the international marketing division of the Times of India, she has had an opportunity to stoke her burning desire to travel and explore the beauty of God's creations worldwide. She has a passion to travel the road less travelled across India as well. She loves the mountains and the village life in particular, however one can find her wandering wherever the grass is green and the skies are blue. She plays by the heart and lives in the moment, impulse is her biggest tool to unleash the enthusiasm she holds within. Her faculties include a fair knowledge of German language, Journalism, Bakery and Confectionery and knowledge of both print media scenario in India, to augment her efforts in unearthing her desires to travel. Juhi can be reached at juhiamar@yahoo.com

Samar is a market researcher, and has been working for ten years, earlier in sales and distribution, before finally finding his call in research. He’s an avid follower of old Hindi film music (mostly 50s and 60s), and strongly believes there exists a treasure trove of film music waiting to be explored by the current generation, even beyond Kishore Kumar and RD Burman. A sporadic traveller, he’s nonetheless enthusiastic about travelling, even on a short weekend trip, and rues the fact that one has to juggle between destinations, and that a lifetime is too short to explore the wonder that is India, let alone the world. He can be virtually addressed at essarzed@rediffmail.com

Les has been traveling since he was 20. He has lived in over 15 countries and probably been in over 40. Having globetrotted across every continent, Les now lives in Sydney with his Wife. Les is one of the legends of the Media Industry having spent most of his career within the Omnicom Network as Senior Vice President and The International Media Director of the BBDO Media Department. Subsequent to BBDO, Les was a Senior Director of a B2B Internet start up (One Media Place) located in New York and San Francisco. He then moved to Australia when he was offered a CEO position at ETCOM. In 2004 Les left Australia to move to Kiev, Ukraine to become CEO of Media Direction in the Omnicom Network. It is our privilege to have him as a Fellow Terrainspotter on this site! You can reach out to Les Margulis at lesmargulis@gmail.com

Rahul Ogra's formative years were spent roaming the high mountains and snowy passes of the Himalayas, where he Climbed, Trekked, Camped, fraternized with Bakarwal herdsmen and generally honed his mountain instinct. Today, Rahul is one of the foremost naturalist of India and he loves the mountains dearly besides being a champion climber! He nowadays runs his own setup called 'Mystic Himalayan Trails' which specializes in Customized Itinerary Based Tours in the Himalayas. He is an inspiration to the whole team of Terrainspotter and we are grateful for his participation on our site. Rahul can be reached directly at rahulogra@gmail.com

Kanika started Delhi Heritage Walks with a friend Rajesh Ranjan while studying at JNU as they both shared a love for history and exploring the city. Kanika loves ruins, in fact, the more ruinous the better…so leading walks is always great fun. Tuhgluqabad is one of her most favourite places in Delhi. When not leading a heritage walk, Kanika often spend her time rambling around these medieval sites or simply proping herself against an old wall, with a book in hand and garam garam chai! Well all team Terrainspotter can say is that the perfect thing to do is to ‘Love Thy Job’ and Kanika’s doing it full steam. It’s a great priviledge having her in the Special Contributors section! You can contact Kanika at info@delhiheritagewalks.com