Having worked as a consultant at a BPO for 12 years on shifts determined by the time in Australia, Rakesh Tiwari was accustomed to returning home in Navi Mumbai only for sound sleep. His mind, though, was dominated with an instinct to travel and so, he says, he began to "Google travel". He would type the name of the place that interested him at a given moment and virtually transport himself to the spot. Over the years, he noticed that there were many like him; those who wanted to explore places but couldn't, for personal or financial reasons. He decided to turn his vivid imagination into a pitch for a podcast in January as part of a pitchfest that the storytelling platform Kommune was hosting in partnership with digital music service Spotify.