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The little girl had left the glitzy world of the Indian modelling and film industry and had moved from the chaotic city of Mumbai to a sacred place in a …

Life is hard. Like really hard. For practically everybody. I don’t know anyone who’s had a completely easy life from day dot. I knew I’d had a relatively tough first …

As a teenage woman growing up in liberal London in the 90s, and as an avid watcher of the hit TV shows of that era like Sex and the City …

Chalkhill Estate. It was one of those ‘phantom’ council estates I’d heard about but never seen. It was always in the news for robberies, violent gang crime and drug scandals. …

Before the incident with Maya at Jai’s school, I saw the children regularly, a few times a week and on the weekends. After the humiliation I faced at the school …

It’s funny what the mind does when it’s trying to avoid pain and trauma. And when I say funny, I mean funny-funny, not funny-ha-ha.   Today, I meditated, bathed, washed …

  Friends Like That   Jaimini had once been my best friend. She and I had known each other since we were little kids. We’d played at each other’s houses, …

December 2001 We’re in India with my in-laws and a big group of relatives and friends. We’ve come to visit some Jain temples and see the facilities funded by the …

I’m often asked what happened in my marriage, why it ended. The truth is, there is no single answer, no one isolated incident, as I’m sure is the case for …

Sometime after that awful evening, Maanav was away in Germany on a business trip. I was at home with the new baby when the phone rang. It was the fraud …

I hit him. Yes. The man I loved. The father of my children. I hit him. I can’t remember why it happened. The only memory I have is this snapshot: …

2001 May 14th: I’m nervous. I check my face in my compact mirror one last time before I go in. I’m wearing my usual misty-grey coloured contact lenses, a flash …