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Same song, different meaning
It’s amazing how the same songs can carry entirely different meanings in different settings. A melody that once felt like a simple love song can suddenly become a memory. A lyric you barely noticed before can hit you deeply years later. The rhythm remains unchanged, the voice is the same, yet somehow, the song transforms…
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The excitement and the fear…all packed in one
With every new book I publish, I tell myself that it will get easier. It doesn’t. As I prepare to release my fifteenth book, Camera on His Shoulder, the excitement and the fear sit together inside me — just as they did when my very first book was launched. The excitement is obvious. This book…
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New Book Announcement – Camera on His Shoulder
Loved the proof copy — but the story isn’t done yet. A few changes remain as I shape Camera on His Shoulder, my next passion project. Coming soon… Private investigator Pat Shah has spent years chasing the shadows of other people’s secrets across India — solving cases from Bombay’s piers to the back alleys of…
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Something new is brewing
Cover page locked in… Sample copy on its way… Last beta reader feedback landing shortly… My first dive into neo-noir….coming in hot very soon.
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The Quiet Immortality of Story
What we do as authors is far more important than we sometimes allow ourselves to believe. It does not matter whether your work appears as a hardback, a paperback, an e-book or an audiobook. If it has reached even a single pair of eyes or a single listening ear, it has already begun its journey…
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AI isn’t the Enemy-Chill, it’s just the new kid in automation
The discussions in some book forums are truly out of this world. Sometimes I feel like the people starting these conversations have been living under a rock for decades, because the posts about AI are absolutely hilarious. I feel the internet is stuck in a loop; like watching people in the 1980s react to mobile…
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Is life only black and white?
Is life merely a choice between black and white, truth and lie, good and bad? Or does it unfold in shades of grey too? That subtle, often uncomfortable space where one does not fully stand on either side? As children, we are taught clarity. Tell the truth. Do the right thing. Choose good over bad.…
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IT WAS TOO SHORT
Whenever anyone asks me how my weekend was, the only reply they ever get is, “It was too short.” And no, I don’t hate my job. I’ve been giving that same answer for nearly twenty years now. It didn’t matter that in India I worked for companies where the weekend meant only Sunday, one day,…
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The predicament of having a child at 42
She is my first child, and she is going to be my only child. She is my pride and joy, the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. When I hold her, the world rearranges itself around the small rhythm of her breath. At forty-two, when she was born, I believed I understood life. I…
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When Music, Song & Dance become the religion the world Needs
The abstract part of my mind had begun its quiet mischief again, entertaining thoughts that were unusual, though not entirely disagreeable. Part of this vivid and slightly peculiar imagining stemmed from a simple truth: music has long been the anchor that keeps my life steady. There are days when stress presses heavily on my shoulders,…