Author Journey

I wrote my first book during the second wave of COVID.

Back then, I had no idea about publishing, marketing, or even book covers. I went with a self-publishing house and learned some hard lessons about what happens when you hand your work over without guidance.

But I didn’t stop — I learned. Over the past year, I’ve poured everything into my second novel, writing, designing, and shaping every detail myself.

From the cover to the world inside the story, I wanted to create something Indian readers could be proud of. Being an author has taught me discipline, empathy, patience, and resilience.

This new book, set in Dharamshala, is time-travel sci-fi written from an Indian lens — and that growth lives in every page.

How It Started?

Creative Process

It didn’t begin on a blank page.

It began on a hillside, with clouds crawling over Dharamshala. About a year ago I sat near Indrunag Temple, the town spread below like a quilt of roofs, roads and mist. The monsoon hung heavy, prayer flags snapping like little heartbeats.

Up there, with nothing but mountains for company, one question kept circling me: India has mythology, thrillers and romance, but how rarely do we see an Indian sci-fi time-travel novel?

What came that day wasn’t a polished plot but a flicker — a half-formed vision I scribbled, crossed out, rewrote, and rebuilt. For months, I wrestled with it, shaping and unshaping until a rough skeleton emerged. Only later did that sketch begin to breathe as a world of its own. Today, that blurred vision has grown into something I’m finally ready to share.