She is a writer, author and novelist based in Mumbai. Her books include The Reluctant Detective, Once Upon A Crush, All Aboard, Saving Maya, Missing Presumed Dead, The Face at the Window, The Kitty Party Murder, More Things in Heaven and Earth and All Those Who Wander in fiction, Karmic Kids, True Love Stories, A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Climate Change and Rising 30 Women Who Changed India in non-fiction and short stories in anthologies like Chicken Soup for the Soul, Boo, City of Screams, Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018, Grandpa’s Tales, Magical Women, Have a Safe Journey and The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction, among others. In previous avatars, she was a journalist, researcher, festival curator and entrepreneur. She has received multiple awards, such as the Women Achievers Award by Young Environmentalists Association and the International Women’s Day Award 2018 from ICUNR supported by the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, Government of India, for excellence in the field of writing and Womennovator 1000 Women of Asia 2021.
In 2022, she was named among 75 Iconic Indian Women in STEAM by Red Dot Foundation and Beyond Black, in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, and British High Commission, New Delhi.