You can reach us at +91 73035 16665 or
Send us an email at info@himalayanwritingretreat.com
Our On-site Crew
Anand, Digar, Himanshu, Neeraj and Prakash are the "Fab Five" that make things work at our retreat. Nothing would work here without them.
Our chefs Anand and Digar have magic on their fingertips (Or so say the lovely folks who visit us). They can rustle up a storm in the kitchen in the blink of an eye and leave your taste buds craving for more.
Prakash, Neeraj and Himanshu make sure your rooms are clean, well stocked with water and tea-bags, and that the loos stay shiny-clean. They also serve all meals hygienically and on time - and they do all this while also helping out in the kitchen as well.
HWR Pro Team
(In alphebetical order)
Chetan Mahajan: Co-Founder & Writing Coach
Chetan Mahajan is the co-founder of the Himalayan Writing Retreat. A Penguin-published author, he quit the corporate world and moved to a village in the Himalayas to be a full-time author, blogger and teacher almost a decade ago. The Himalayan Writing Retreat is all about helping people with their writing. He is also a writing coach with the London based the writing coach.
Chetan blogs about life in a Himalayan village at www.uncity.blog. This blog won the Indiblogger award for Humour in 2017.
He is currently working on his first novel "Tara and Vishnu" and also co-authoring a non-fiction book titled "The Indian Writers Handbook". Chetan often writes columns for the Readers Digest, Mint, Outlook Magazine, Hindu Business Line and the Hindustan Times (Brunch).
For more details, visit www.chetanmahajan.com
Debdatta: Director - Marketing & Operations
Debdatta, the Outreach & Operations Manager, is an award winning book blogger and Limca Book of Records holder with 2 master's degrees that are gathering dust in the attic. If your call or email isn't being answered immediately, it's probably because this bookworm is stuck in the spiral that is 'one more chapter'.
Pratyusha Sen: Social Media Lead
Pratyusha mastered being social by turning her wallflower status into her secret superpower and now manages the social media for The Himalayan Writing Retreat. Thanks to her overactive imagination (aka overthinking), she's also a passionate storyteller, always trying (and failing) to write at the speed of her thoughts. Other than pretending to be a mountain bird on weekends, she loves escaping in the pages of a book.
Renu
Renu is an adventure enthusiast who feels most at home in the mountains. A long-distance runner and avid reader, she finds joy in exploring nature and going on long walks with the dogs. Whether it's a rugged trail or a quiet corner with a book, she embraces the outdoors with energy and curiosity.
Sukrit Nagaraj: Web Designer
Sukrit Nagaraj believes in constant creation, conscious consumption through deliberate decisions, and an essentialist-ic existence. Therefore, he commences his day meditating, making mint-tea, and muscle-building. When he isn't being an ardent alliterator, he is picking up a new skill or tuning the strings of his guitar. He divides his working hours between his next dream project, cooking aglio olio spaghetti and maintaining the website for THWR.
Titli Ghosh: Outreach Manager
After a disastrous attempt at making peace with the 9-5 corporate life, Titli accepted that she was made for a more creative and flexible path. A published poet and a former educator with an MBA degree that she doesn’t use anymore, Titli goes off the grid from time to time to focus on her solo travel adventures. When not writing or editing, she is found documenting her questionable travel decisions in her travel blog.
Vandita Dubey: Co-founder, Author & Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Vandita Dubey is the author of "Parenting in the age of sexposure: Raising the precocious generation" , published by Rupa. Penguin has signed her next book titled "Rework Life" and it is slated for launch in the second half of 2026.
Dr. Dubey earned her Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 2006 and obtained her Psychologist License from the State of Indiana in 2007. She trained and worked in private practice, community mental health centers, and schools in the US. Her research focused on resilience. She started her private practice in Gurgaon in 2008 and has consulted with schools and corporates. Dr Dubey also holds a degree in Medical & Psychiatric Social Work from TISS, Mumbai, and worked with
NGOs on the issue of child sexual abuse in Delhi and Mumbai between 1997 and 2000.
Dr. Dubey now chooses to live in the Himalayas, where she has co-founded the Himalayan Writing Retreat. She has designed the Emotional well-being through Writing workshop
which she conducts. This is a course which uses writing as a means of introspection and self growth. Through a host of creative writing exercises participants at this workshop get an opportunity to reflect and gain insight into their thoughts and feelings. She is also the
expert psychologist featured on the popular YouTube channel Zen-brain.