Hi! I am an Indian writer who has spent more than two decades putting words together for a queer mix of people: temperamental editors; tricky publishers; confused magazine heads; pony tailed weirdos; but above all, myself. Because, words complete my world. I've won some international awards like the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (for the first short story I wrote) and am working on my fifth book for Penguin Random House that shall revisit the battlefield of Kargil, 20 years after the war was fought. I am still looking for interesting, unheard stories from the war so if you have any to share, do let me know.
If you really want to read more Oh-how-awesome-my-work-is stuff like that, you can check the drop window saying Profile. Truth is that mostly I am mom to a precocious 16-year-old, walk partner to a crazy Golden Retriever and exasperated wife to a happy-go-lucky Army officer whose work has taken us to some of the most remote corners of India. These sleepy cantonments, where time slows down, used to frustrate me to tears when I was younger but they now give me some of my most treasured moments of solitude. This is my time to read, listen to music or just sit with a cup of tea weaving memories with imagination to write those short stories that I plan to put together in a book a hundred years from now. Or maybe sooner.
Now that you're here; I hope you'll have the time to look around. And if you find something that touches your heart, I hope you'll tell me about it. We writers live for moments like that.
If you really want to read more Oh-how-awesome-my-work-is stuff like that, you can check the drop window saying Profile. Truth is that mostly I am mom to a precocious 16-year-old, walk partner to a crazy Golden Retriever and exasperated wife to a happy-go-lucky Army officer whose work has taken us to some of the most remote corners of India. These sleepy cantonments, where time slows down, used to frustrate me to tears when I was younger but they now give me some of my most treasured moments of solitude. This is my time to read, listen to music or just sit with a cup of tea weaving memories with imagination to write those short stories that I plan to put together in a book a hundred years from now. Or maybe sooner.
Now that you're here; I hope you'll have the time to look around. And if you find something that touches your heart, I hope you'll tell me about it. We writers live for moments like that.
You can sign the Visitors' diary here /visitors-diary.html. You can contact me also by filling up the contact-me form. I always answer my mail :)