Career
She has been a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a house painter, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organiser and community organiser. She currently works as a librarian and community organiser with the Deepalaya Community Library Project, which runs a free community library with hundreds of members in a working class South Delhi neighbourhood and is opening another library in Delhi"s Okhla colony. Her novel Not Only the Things That Have Happened (Harper Collins, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Book Award.
Her stories have appeared in literary journals including Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the United Kingdom and Italy.
Review of Not Only The Things That Have Happened in India Today, January 2013
Review of Not Only The Things That Have Happened in Sunday Guardian, February, 2013
Review of Not Only The Things That Have Happened from People Magazine, May, 2-13
Review of If lieutenant Is Sweet in Outlook Magazine, June 2009
Review of If lieutenant Is Sweet, in Tehelka, June 2009
Review of "The Large Girl" in the The Hindu Literary Review, July 2007
Review of "The Large Girl" in India Today, April 2007.