I study women's lives in the places they actually happen: neighbourhoods, kitchens, classrooms, offices and the long distances between countries. My research asks who gets to decide, and how women negotiate that question inside family, culture and work.

That question also shapes my plays, my Hindi poetry and my novel. Across all of it, I try to show women with their humour, intelligence and contradictions intact, rather than as figures of suffering. I also coach, mediate and teach, because ideas about agency should be useful in a room.

Marriage Mirage (2020) is a social comedy about three women from different generations, Munni, Mangala and Maggie, whose romantic lives become unexpectedly intertwined. Set against Indian middle-class sensibilities, it uses satire to look at marriage, commitment and the surprising ways women negotiate their relationships.

My Frustrated Lady (2021) follows a newly immigrated Indian woman and her encounters with a Caucasian couple. The play looks at elitism, subtle racism and cultural misunderstanding in urban America, and at the emotional wellbeing of South Asian women in the diaspora.

The title pairs two familiar images: the sensory richness of food and domestic tradition, and the openness of a moonlit terrace. Together they suggest the many spaces where women's lives, relationships and identities unfold.

The novel follows the everyday experiences that shape womanhood: family, social expectation, cultural belonging, and the ways women come to understand themselves and the world around them.