Born and raised in Bombay, I grew up with a classic ‘Bhel Puri’ notion of life. A culture that believes that the end product only tastes as good as the sum of its parts… meshed together with a bug here and there. So here I am - a compound of experiences that somehow made its way to San Francisco. A superiority complex about my Bambaiya ‘Hindi’ coupled with feisty Punjabi genetics have stood me in good stead as I traversed the continents before settling down here.

Aside from focusing on the Ayurvedic health of a husband and two youngsters with equally feisty Punjabi genes, I dedicate my spare time to diverse subjects like writing, stand-up comedy and my day job, Ayurveda, India’s 5000-year-old therapeutic lifestyle medicine. As an Ayurveda Vaidya Visharad,  the medicine has become an integral part of my blood. No amount of leech therapy provides any relief. In my early American life, I founded Ayoma, an Ayurvedic self care product line and the Ayoma LifeSpa, a premier Ayurvedic wellness spa. Now I spend my days providing Ayurvedic consultations and therapy to my clients. I also teach healthcare practitioners and laypeople about the wonders of this medicine.

And since Bhel Puri only becomes intensified with complexity, I unleash my inner creativity through story: fiction, non-fiction, kids’ stories, plays, film scripts, fantasy novels, websites….come tap my storehouse, I have many tales to tell!