"I want to travel the world with you, my love. I want to experience the rest of my life with you. I can’t wait for all our adventures to come." With these words from Krunal ringing in my ears, I booked flights for my first holiday without my young husband…

A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER AT 18 MONTHS Dearest Siya. Your Daddy dreamt you into existence when you were safe in Mummy's tummy. He loved you before you were even born. And then, when you came into our world, we loved you even more. You are more than what we…

BEING PROPELLED INTO LIFE Lately, I’ve been finding comfort not in religion or spirituality, but from physics. One quote in particular by physicist Brian Cox has been playing heavily on my mind – that inevitably, all forms of life, always continue to move forward. Life just has a way of…

TO BE LOVED BY THE MAN WHO WAS LOVED BY EVERYONE It was the sound of Krunal's laughter; a vivacious, booming, wholesome laughter that vibrated across the room. And everywhere he went, the people around him would erupt into bursts of laughter. There was just so much joy when he…

THE LOVE HE GAVE ME “And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. …

FINDING THE LIGHT IN MY DARKEST HOUR “You are the light of my life, not just for Diwali, but always,” my husband would say to me as we woke up next to one another on Diwali mornings. …

For me, 35 began with having just become a first-time mother to the most precious girl. I was happily (very happily) married to the most wonderful man I’d ever met. …

“Where do you see yourself in five years?" A question we are all asked so commonly, at job interviews, at various life checkpoints. We view life as a series of five year intervals, as though we all have access to an infinite amount of time. …

There were three days last year in which Krunal’s and my life changed forever. The first was the day Krunal was diagnosed with life threatening cancer. The second was the day I gave birth to our beautiful daughter. The third was the day we had to say goodbye to the…