My first stories came to me from my mother. Daughter of freedom fighters, she had lived through India's struggle for Independence and told it the way only an eyewitness can. I could have listened forever. The whole wide world of fiction came later, and with it the feeling that stories could take you anywhere.

I've been following that ever since.

Sixteen years as a voice-over artist. A first audiobook with Brilliance Audio that arrived, wonderfully, without an audition – when I was barely aware of the audiobook industry. That moment of grace has never left me. A convent school education in India and several years in the United States have made me equally at home in Western and South Asian narratives. Growing up trilingual - English, Hindi, and Marathi - has given me more than range. It shapes how I tell the story, not just which stories I can tell.

I'm a wife, a mother of two, and a caregiver to my own mother now. Life has given me a lot of material and no shortage of things to feel. I just have to show up and narrate.