I grew up in India and England, and my outsider's perspective has always drawn me to stories about India/Indians in the west, a theme I love to explore in my own writing. I am also inspired by my mother's tales of poverty in India and her journey fired my imagination from the smallest age. I began with poetry and moved into prose as I realized that good prose is full of poetry, with care taken so that each word is exactly right and reverberates with associations.