02 / Writer

I like real stories.

The complicated ones. The ones where nobody is entirely right. The ones people have spent years trying to figure out how to tell.

I write my own. Sometimes I write yours.

Bijal reading in a bookstore

My books.

Published

For the Love of Laxmi

An illustrated book about everyday Desi biases and the imprints they leave.

Coming soon

Like Father, Like Daughter

A memoir.

Coming soon

Daddy’s Day at the Hotel

A children’s book.

For the Love of Laxmi became an Amazon #1 New Release and is now in 300+ libraries.

It has been covered by the Very Asian Foundation, News India Times, SEEMA, FOX 5 DC and Great Day Washington on WUSA9. The book has also taken me into libraries, interviews, workshops and conversations I never expected when I wrote it.

I also ghostwrite.

But probably not the book you’re thinking of.

If you’re a founder or CEO looking for a business book, please don’t email me.

If you want to write a self-help book, also please don’t email me.

I can’t write those.

I want real stories.

Athletes. Dancers. Artists. Travelers. Immigrants. People who left. People who came back. People who did something extraordinary. People who lived through something ordinary that changed them anyway.

Life-seekers.

People with stories that aren’t trying to teach the reader seven steps to anything.

You don’t need to know how to write it. You just need to have lived it.

I’ll help you find the story.