I was born on 31 December 1979, at 07:30 AM, in Mahim, Mumbai (Bombay), India (precise birth details are given for astrological reasons), into a middle-class Kokanastha / Chitpavan brahmin family, to Sulbha Arvind Joshi (née Suman Dattatreya Joshi) (born 17 Oct 1945) and Arvind Ramchandra Joshi (born 30 Jan 1939). For the first 15 years of my life, I lived with my parents, my elder sister Supriya, my paternal grandmother, and a paternal granduncle, in Katariya Colony, Veer Savarkar Marg (Road), more...