Meet the parents

When I was 18 years old and had my first boyfriend, he met my mother on our first date. By accident, but still. On our second…

5 Stories of my life in India

Flashback Friday

Planet or plastic?

The best Indian relationship hack

transcribed from my stand-up comedy set

Living in India: my 3 biggest daily nuissances

I’ve been thinking a great deal about exasperation and the irritations of life…

A day in Delhi: Stories of India

We met for the first time at the Delhi airport on a hot May morning. I don’t remember the overbearing…

Main tumse pyaar karti hoon

When I first came back to India at the end of 2016 and we relocated to Vizag, I did not share a common…

How to afford to travel

Easy budget traveling: Money and accommodation

The Honeymoon is over

It started out easy, breezy like a lovely spring day. Full of promise and hope, a fresh scent of a beginning for something grand in the air. We had never met, but I was sure, I knew enough. I was madly in love. Come what may.

Mango & coconut raw cake for Mother’s Day

I have been watching my mother’s life from the sidelines for 30 years now, almost as long as she had lived when she had me. I’m more or less at the age where I would eventually assume the identity of a mother, my mother. She has been the only role model for…