She wrote her first poem as she struggled through her first, boring-as-hell job with a trading firm. The job lasted a week. Three decades later, she is still writing. When she is not writing poems, or posting on Substack, she is working on the third draft of her debut novel. A firm believer in ‘give it a shot,’ she has worked in marketing, tried to join the Indian army (their loss is media’s gain), assisted filmmakers Mani Ratnam and Santosh Sivan, scripted and produced a short film, been a scriptwriter, a reporter, a deputy editor, and a creative writing teacher. Nowadays she works as a clinical hypnotherapist and a grief counsellor, when she is not writing, cooking, meeting friends, walking, daydreaming or sleeping.