About Me — Tanya Mehta

A doctor who followed the whisper to write.

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I’m Tanya — a doctor by profession, a reader by heart, and someone who knows what it means to start over.

I live in Mumbai, India, where monsoons and chai are a vibe.

For years, I walked hospital corridors, tending to broken bones, beating hearts, and weary souls. I loved the science, the purpose, the privilege of helping people heal. But somewhere along the way, I realized I had my own kind of healing to do — the kind that couldn’t be charted or scanned. It came in the form of words.

Writing gave me something medicine never could: space to feel, to question, to create.

It started with scribbles in journals during night shifts and slowly grew into something braver — a voice I hadn’t known I was missing.

So now, I write. Not instead of being a doctor, but as a deeper extension of it.

Writing became the thing that saved me — on days when the hospital felt too heavy, on nights when I felt like I’d lost parts of myself trying to be everything for everyone else. Writing helped me find my voice again.

Now, I write here on Medium — not because I have all the answers, but because I finally stopped waiting for…