About BonVoyah

BonVoyah is a travel guide to Indian cities written by people who live in them. Not visited. Not researched in a week. Lived in — for years, in most cases for decades.

We started from a simple observation: most online travel content about India is written by people who passed through quickly and wrote up what the guidebook said. It is not wrong, exactly. But it is not true in the way that local knowledge is true — the way that knowing a city means knowing which chai stall to go to after a bad night, which neighbourhood to avoid during Diwali if you want to sleep, which fort is worth the hike at 7am in October specifically.

How we work

Each city guide is commissioned from a local: someone who was born there, or moved there young, or has lived there long enough to have opinions about the right way to eat a kachori. We pay our contributors properly. We fact-check everything with the contributor before publication. We update guides seasonally.

We do not accept press trips, complimentary stays, or paid placements. Every restaurant, ghat, temple, and train journey in our guides was paid for by the writer or the publication. Our Booking.com and affiliate links fund the operation — we disclose this clearly and we’d rather you know than wonder.

The team

BonVoyah is run by a small editorial team based between Mumbai and Delhi. Our contributors are our most important people — writers, architects, musicians, food journalists, and working people who happen to know their city the way only residents do.