Hi. Welcome to On My Canvas!
I’m Priyanka Gupta. I quit my investment banking job to write and travel the world.
Here I write about alternative ways of living, learning, and exploring. Live freely and fully is my motto.
About a decade and a half ago, I graduated with a B.Tech. in Computer Science from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD). In 2016, five years into a seven-figure corporate career, I quit my job. I spent the next year exploring Southeast Asia and South America, solo.
In 2017, I launched On My Canvas. I wanted to share my explorations on how to live to my best potential: to live freely and fully. For me, a free life signifies making decisions by asking the right questions, not out of fear or social pressure but through curiosity and logic. To live fully is to be able to choose my own path, instead of the ones laid out before me.
I strengthen my personal growth guides, career articles, and offbeat life ideas with scientific studies and books. I also write about creativity, writing, and culture and publish meditations on individual books. My travel adventures live on the blog as long-form travelogues.
If you want to travel the world or need a different perspective, On My Canvas is a good place to hang out. Here you will find simple ways of doing things little by little. Welcome!


MY FIRST BOOK
Journeys Beyond and Within...
IS HERE!
In my vivid narrative style (that readers love, ahem), I have told my most incredible adventures, including a nine-month solo trip to South America. In the candid book, the scoldings I got from home for not settling down and the fears and obstacles I faced, along with my career experiments, are laid bare. Witty and introspective, the memoir will make you laugh and inspire you to travel, rediscover home, and leap over the boundaries.
Sikkim Express: "Simple, free-flowing, but immensely evocative."
The Telegraph Online: "An introspective as well as an adventurous read."
Grab your copy now!
The memoir is available globally. Search for the title on your country's Amazon.
Or, read a chapter first. Claim your completely free First Chapter here.














