I live in Bangalore in southern India and have a background in marketing and journalism in the corporate sector. I am a full time writer now and contribute regularly for World & I Journal (Washington) which is subscribed by 10,000 schools in the US, and Reptilia (Spain), the leading European herp magazine published also in Spanish, German, Dutch, and Italian. I am the India correspondent for The Veterinarian (Australia) and Religioscope (Switzerland). My fiction and nonfiction have also appeared in Contrary (Chicago University), The Reader (University of Liverpool), Coin News (UK), Dragonfire (Drexel University, Philadelphia), Gastronomica (University of California), Living Now, Woman's Day (Australia), Woman This Month (UAE), Times of India (Mumbai) and other publications.