The Co-Founders
Elevated India is built by two people who refuse to see India presented as anything less than it is — a shared conviction, and two decades of roads travelled to make it real.
Co-Founder · Vision & Experience
Nikhil built Elevated India on a conviction: that the world’s most discerning travellers deserve an Indian house that meets them at their own standard — in design, in technology, and in taste. He leads the brand, the guest experience and the house’s ambitions, from the first pixel a guest sees to the last promise kept on the road.
Co-Founder · Travel Thought Leader
Manu has spent more than two decades shaping how India is travelled — a practitioner-scholar of the road whom hoteliers, guides and fellow operators seek out for judgement, not just logistics. The owned fleet, the driver corps and a 5.0-rated, 568-review record are simply the visible proof of a deeper mastery: he knows what India can offer a guest before the guest knows to ask for it.
The standard, in motion — every detail of a Journey held to the house colours.
A Letter from the Founders
To those who will travel with us,
India has never needed embellishment. What it has always deserved is presentation equal to its substance — and that, precisely, is the work of this house.
We began with a simple observation: the world’s most discerning travellers hold every great destination to one standard, and India has too often been offered to them at another. The distance between those two standards is not a shortcoming of India — it is a failure of presentation. Closing that distance is our life’s work.
Our vision is to help elevate India’s standing in world travel — journey by journey, standard by standard — until the benchmarks for how this country is experienced are set here, at home, and consulted everywhere.
It is an ambitious sentence to put in writing. But every journey we compose is an argument for it: the palace door already open, the curator who answers personally, the driver trained a decade ago waiting exactly where he said he would be. Standards kept privately, over enough years, have a way of becoming standards kept by an industry — and, in time, by a country.
Until then, we hold ourselves to the only measure that matters — that your journey through India is the finest travel experience of your life.
Nikhil Sharma
Co-Founder · GurugramManu Singh
Co-Founder · Jaipur