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About Queen of Treasures

Queen of Treasures is a slow media space for stories that linger.

It was created as a home for essays, travel narratives, cultural reflections, book conversations, cinema, mental wellbeing, and the quiet intersections between memory, place, and the unseen. In a digital world driven by speed, Queen of Treasures chooses depth. It values observation over opinion, experience over noise, and curiosity over certainty.

This is not a site chasing the moment. It is an editorial journal shaped by time, travel, reading, listening, and lived experience.

What We Explore

Queen of Treasures brings together multiple worlds that often overlap but are rarely allowed to speak to each other:

  • Travel as immersion, not itineraries. Landscapes, cities, people, histories, and the emotional geography of movement.
  • Books, Arts & Culture as mirrors of society, memory, and identity. Reviews, reflections, and cultural commentary.
  • Cinema & Fiction as storytelling traditions that shape how we see power, love, loss, and belonging.
  • Mental Wellbeing through personal essays, resources, and conversations rooted in compassion, reflection, and lived wisdom.
  • Lifestyle & Environment as conscious living, sustainability, creativity, and everyday rituals that shape inner and outer worlds.
  • Podcasts as an extension of the written word — conversations, readings, and reflections in audio form.

Rather than isolating these themes, the site allows them to flow into one another, much like real life does.

Our Editorial Philosophy

Queen of Treasures believes that storytelling is a form of preservation.

Every piece published here is guided by:

  • Curiosity over judgment
  • Context over sensationalism
  • Reflection over reaction
  • Respect for cultural memory and lived experience

The site favours long-form writing, personal voice, and thoughtful analysis. It welcomes ambiguity and resists easy conclusions.

Who This Site Is For

Queen of Treasures is for readers who:

  • enjoy thoughtful essays and reflective storytelling
  • read across genres and disciplines
  • travel to understand, not just to see
  • care about mental wellbeing, culture, and the environment
  • value nuance, depth, and sincerity

If you enjoy pieces that stay with you long after you’ve closed the page, you’ll feel at home here.

About the Editor

Queen of Treasures is edited and curated by Ambica Gulati, a former journalist and senior editor with decades of experience across magazines, newspapers, books, and visual storytelling.

Her work spans travel, culture, environment, books, cinema, and mental wellbeing, shaped by years in reporting, editing, photography, design, and production. Alongside journalism, her interests include creative nonfiction, fiction, tarot, spiritual traditions, and reflective writing as a healing practice.

Queen of Treasures brings these worlds together — professional rigour with intuitive storytelling, research with reflection, and journalism with soul.

Why “Queen of Treasures”

The name reflects a belief that stories are treasures — gathered carefully, carried gently, and shared with intention.

Some are found in libraries and archives. Others in conversations, journeys, forests, films, or moments of silence. Queen of Treasures is a place where these are collected, honoured, and offered to readers.

Welcome to Queen of Treasures.

Stay. Read slowly. Return often.