Category: Books
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A New Book Is Coming: Why Is My Skin Brown?
A new middle-grade novel is on the way. Sarayu is twelve, Pennsylvania-born, and about to learn that Bengaluru has its own ideas about her skin.
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The Refusal to Translate
A response to the argument that every major Indian writer lives abroad and writes from memory. The real variable isn’t geography. It’s whether the publishing chain between you and the reader lets you keep the sentence intact.
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If You Love BTS, Read This
The dedication at the front of this novel reads: For Namjoon and BTS, who made music a place to go when the world outside was too much. I wrote that in 2025, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The music worked as it always had. Not by pretending the world was better than it was. By making it…
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Nobody Asked Us
I wrote Hindsight because I needed to understand something. Not to resolve it. Not to arrive at an answer I could hand to a reader neatly wrapped. I needed to understand what it costs a woman to build a life on a story she was never given in full.
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The Business of Self-Publishing: Beyond Writing and Editing
Amazon Accounts Payable reads the email notification at the top of my phone. I click on it too hurriedly only to realize I need to log in to check the details. An hour later, kitchen chores done, walk after dinner done, kids suitably engrossed in their phones and Amma downstairs in bed, I finally sit…
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Hindsight Paperback Now Available In India
Hindisght is now available as a paperback in India. Below are the links to order. Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/fTyPlkS NotionPress: https://notionpress.com/read/hindsight
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Cover Reveal: Hindsight
A picture is worth a thousand words or so they say. While we wait for my book to be available, here is the gorgeous cover designed by Santhya Shenbagam. Blurb: Set in the 90s India, Hindsight traces the life of Sandhya, Surya, and Aditya at college until a horrific incident tears them asunder. Fourteen years…
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A Tribe To See Me Through
I woke up this morning to an email outlining how many unsold copies (approx 1700) of my book Why is my Hair Curly? is languishing in a warehouse somewhere. The notion of time ticking while Westland wraps up its accounting and brings its life as an entity to a close, lit a fire in me.…
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Defining Success: Yet
I was logged in to work, early for a Friday morning that is, when Laddu, also logged into her school iPad in the same room, walked up to me. Her face was serious. I removed my ear phones and gave her my full attention preparing myself to send a note to her teacher whatever the…