‘The Musafir Stories’ — India’s oldest and most loved travel podcast

Jugal Wadhwani
2 min readNov 17, 2022

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Photo by Leio McLaren on Unsplash

A newly married couple begins to think of multiple projects they could do to bond together..

Post 6–8 months of multiple projects starting and shutting down, they decided to give podcasting a try.

The Musafir Stories, a travel podcast was finally launched in Feb 2017 and is today counted as one of the most popular travel podcasts for listeners in India..

When they started in 2017, podcasting was not even a word and the couple faced multiple problems including explaining the medium to potential guests. Not only did they manage to surpass this and carry on, they have also set benchmarks for consistency and how to build a media property over the years.

Listen in to their journey and understand how podcasting has evolved in India from the mouth of a creator and what future it holds for anyone looking to get into this medium as an individual creator.

In this entire episode, you can find answers to these important questions below.

4.47–7.42 — How does this travel podcaster curate content of places across India?

9.17–14.15 — The Musafir Stories advice on why and when one should get into podcasting?

14.16–17.22 — This travel podcaster’s numbers around listens

22.45–27.41 — How does one generate revenue from podcasting?

32.39–38.45 — Why does this travel podcaster avoid going to YouTube?

https://youtu.be/zRkpe7DtfjA

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