The people
building Raasta

Armaan loved travel long before he could actually do much of it. While researching trips across India, he kept running into the same problem. There were endless ways to book a hotel or a flight, but almost nothing to help him decide where he should go in the first place.

It bothered him that a country this big keeps getting reduced to the same few spots. India has some of the most varied landscapes, cultures and food anywhere, yet most people keep going back to the same crowded places, only because they never find out what else is out there.

So he started Raasta, to turn scattered, confusing research into one clear answer, and to give the country's overlooked places a way to be found.

Siddharth joined the moment he heard the idea. He and Armaan have been friends since Class 11, and he was one of the first people to back the idea that Raasta could change how people explore India.

He is the engineer who makes it real. He has built real-time dashboards and web apps that scale, including the ticketing systems that moved tens of thousands of fans through the gates at IPL matches. He turns the idea into a product people can actually use.