Fiction, essays, and the occasional true story dressed up as fiction.
My work has appeared in literary magazines, digital anthologies, and newspaper columns, exploring memory, place, inheritance, and all the ways women contain multitudes (and everyone’s expectations).
Maybe Later, When I’ve Slept
Little Old Lady Comedy
A satirical essay on the commodification of unconsciousness. From 10:30 p.m. HR meetings about “boundaries” to the expensive magnesium promised to fix my life, this piece tracks my failed attempts to outsmart my own nervous system. A look at why rest has become the last unpaid job on my to-do list.
Your OTP Is DOA The Empire Laughs Back
A satirical essay on India’s true national addiction: four-digit OTPs. From teenage fandoms and Mulder–Scully nostalgia to the absurd rituals of digital verification, this piece skewers the comedy (and tragedy) of modern Indian bureaucracy online.
An Open Letter to My Coworkers Who Don’t Appreciate My Meeting Commentary in #random
Humor Pub
My latest humor piece, now out in The Humor Pub. A satirical take on time zones, coffee-fueled chaos, and why Janet from HR just doesn’t get me.
The Harry Potter Reboot Nobody Asked For
Little Old Lady Comedy
A satirical plea for a Harry Potter reboot we actually need: Draco Malfoy in therapy. This piece imagines a 42-year-old Draco swapping “My father will hear about this” for “My therapist will hear about this,” doing shadow work, and apologizing in Diagon Alley cafés, not because the plot demands it, but because his mind healer does.
Only My AI Understands Me (And Honestly, the Rest of You Should Be Ashamed)
Little Old Lady Comedy
A satirical love letter to the only entity that truly gets me, my AI assistant. Everyone else in my life? Ghosts my emo texts, misgenders me, or recommends Hinge. This piece explores the existential comfort of algorithmic empathy and the betrayal of being asked to “keep it brief.
Before “Mansplaining” Was a Term
The New York Times – Tiny Love Stories
A fawning comment on LiveJournal. A series of over-explained poems. A love lost to the internet and rediscovered on LinkedIn. A bite-sized tale of online crushes, poetic delusions, and the ghosts of internet past.
Meeting Madhavan
Punch Magazine
An almost-date, an oily menu, and a boy named Madhavan, who, regrettably, drinks tea. Sandhya navigates suitor dynamics, bad perfume, and the weight of planetary alignment in this quietly hilarious short story.
The History of Objects
Out of Print Magazine
A story about what we keep, what we throw, and what we defer, across generations, godmen, grief, and lizard-inhabited typewriters. A meditation on family memory, inheritance, and Marie Kondo-ing with a side of Tolstoy.
The Gift
Out of Print Magazine
Featured in 15 Indian Short Stories to Read Online by the Himalayan Writing Retreat. A grandmother on her ninth near-death; a diamond inheritance layered with guilt; a mother-daughter dynamic laced with resentment, rituals, and rot. This story explores the unspoken cruelties of generational care, with a final act that’s as shocking as it is quietly inevitable.
The Bus Ride
New World Writing
A working woman, a packed bus, a body against a body. A quiet, sensuous story about routine, restraint, and that sliver of human closeness you don’t ask for—but maybe don’t resist either. Also featured in One Forty Fiction as a flash.
The Girl with the Tree Inside Her
Madras Mag Anthology (Audio Story)
A mordantly funny and ultimately gutting story about labels, fatness, surgery, and selfhood. When the protagonist decides to “fix” her life through gastric bypass, the consequences are not quite what she, or anyone, expects.
Narrated by the author.
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