Santhosh George Kulangara|A self-made person|Inspiring |An extraordinary person, with different thoughts

Santhosh George Kulangara 

(born 25 December 1971) is an Indian traveller, television producer, director, broadcaster, and publisher. He is the founder and managing director of Safari TV, a channel dedicated to travel and history-based programmes.

Kulangara also serves as the head of Labour India Publications, an educational publisher for school children. As of 2021, Kulangara had travelled to more than 130 countries and his journeys are telecast through Sancharam, the first travel documentary in Malayalam. Television Santhosh started a career in journalism in 1992 by making telefilms and documentaries for various television channels. At age 26, he assumed the leadership of Labour India Publications, a publishing house which provides journals and magazines for students.

His telefilms and documentaries include Samayam, Acharya, Maluvinte Lokam and Krishnagatha.[10] In 1997, he decided to start a travelogue by travelling to different countries and the first episode of Sancharam was broadcast in Asianet in 2001.[11][2][12] Kulangara launched the exploration channel Safari TV on 1 November 2013 and is its managing director. He is the “Chief Explorer” of Safari TV, and the channel’s signature programme, Sancharam, is shot, edited and directed by him.

It entered the Limca Book of Records as the “first visual travelogue in Malayalam”.[13] As a solo traveller, he has visited several nations around the globe to showcase the history, culture traditions and nature of each destination.

As of 2021, he had travelled through more than 130 countries and seven continents since he started his solo journeys outside India in 1997. The programme was initially telecasted by Asianet channel from 2001 to 2012.

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