I’m the author of *Famous Last Questions—*out now, from Aleph Book Company.
Indian millennials were born into a world full of contradictions: deeply conservative families, but total freedom outside, online, entering a newly liberalized economy and technological future.
I embodied these tensions in the multiple selves I maintained—the “ideal” overachieving ‘90s kid at home, but also the secret black sheep outside, flouting norms I was supposed to live by. In asking why I was the way I was, I ended up with questions about the values that shaped my country and generation:
I thought these were dangerous questions to ask—hence the title. And I did die, but only metaphorically. So the book and I could be in your hands right now.
JK, just the book. Read it, and **tell the world what you think.**
I'm also the writer behind the ‘The Sanjana Effect’, that viral essay on how a generation of Indian girls was named after Aishwarya Rai, aka 'Sanju', in the iconic 1993 Pepsi ad.
Our parents hoped we would inherit Rai’s beauty, success, and elusive mix of modernity and tradition if we were given her name from a cola ad.