If I knew that we had very few months with my mother, I would have made more of an effort to make time for our regular trips to the Canteen Department Stores!

Bollywood films and singers have carried their melodies overseas, and there is always an overwhelming response from music lovers.

Over the years, tears haven’t stopped but I learned to build a life around the avalanches of tragedy. I had never known a life without him.

In the early nineties, when my mother was a part of my father's large joint family, young women aspired to become either tailors, nurses, typists or teachers. That was what the men of the family approved of.

It is essential to put out our stories where women are not pitted against each other; instead, they hold each other up and celebrate each other. Here is mine.