Chandrika’s past is a tumultuous sea of memories. The college years at Lady Sunderbai. Shaheen, ever resourceful, ever beautiful. Deepti, fiercely loyal, stubbornly straightforward. The drudgery of education and the adrenaline of the girl’s football team. A fierce rival. And, of course, Raghav. But it had all come burning down in a whirlwind of flames. The flames that had scorched themselves into Chandrika’s mind, had incinerated her ability to ever return to those days of her youth in remembrance… Fifteen years later, Chandrika always seems to be on the run. From herself. From the past. From looking too close or probing too deep. Only now life seems to have outrun her too. Her marriage dissolved, she finds herself adrift until an unexpected pilgrimage calls her back to India and sets her on a collision course with the past she had suppressed and the friends she had let go. Will she…

Out for purchase! Get your copy now at: https://amzn.in/d/f1JTRf8 “Was my life really like Black Beauty’s? A series of masters, no real choices, just making do with whatever came my way?" Asha was a child like any other. Cherished by her doting father, she grew up poor but happy in the shaded embrace of the Shimla hills during the British Raj. He kept her isolated from the dynamics between the locals and the goras who had claimed the city for their own, until one day, his passing left Asha alone. As her childhood fell away overnight, Asha realised that there were some questions she would now need to answer for herself … Set in pre-independence India, The One-Way Ships follows Asha’s unusual life as she struggles with questions about the meaning of home and the perils and rewards of self-determination. She finds herself not only getting back on her feet…