A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit

Richard Bach

I have always been a big fan of a good story. As a child, I loved listening to them with my mother and grand-mother and as an adult I love sharing them with the world. My favourite stories to tell are around food, travel and startups. Check out my portfolio below for a small glimpse of my storytelling abilities.

Business

Finance: Koura Wealth

• Chasing KiwiSaver performance is a bad idea
• The rising tide of Digital Advice: How New Zealand compares
• Understanding the different types of KiwiSaver funds
• Your nest or your nest egg
• Hundreds and thousands better off: Your Guide to KiwiSaver

Healthcare: Breast Cancer Foundation, NZ

• Exercise: An important piece of the breast cancer puzzle

Food

Little Black Book

• Where To Eat The Parsi Food You Wont Find In A Restaurant

The Week

• Customer Cares 

Huffington Post

• The Iconic Parsi Wedding Dish – Patra Ni Machchi

India Food Network

• The Game Of Custards
• The Parsi Maa Ki Dal You Did Not Know About
• Three Questions Worth Asking Before You Become A ‘Flea-trepreneur’
• Five Parsi Sweets You May Not Have Heard Of
• Finding Happiness In A Bowl of Curry
• Getting Your Parsi Fix At Grantroad In Mumbai
• How I Fell In Love With Vasanu
• The Russian Connection
• Five Reasons Why I Love Pulao Instead Of Biryani
• Akoori’s Evil Twin – Anda Bhurji
• When Parsis Shun Meat
• Tales Of The Parsi Haft Seen Table
• The Little Known Parsi Feast Of Fire
• The Parsi Patio Diaries

Caldron Magazine

• An Egg’s Best Friends
• Bawa’s And Their Bhonu

Story Pick

• Ten Must Have Parsi Dishes Before You Die

Travel

Conde Nast Traveller

• Gluttony in Guangzhou: Five Great Things To Try

Huffington Post

• 10 Novelties To Look Out For In The Markets of Guangzhou
• Five Reasons Why Food Lovers Must Visit Udvada
• Eight Kilometres of Eating In Purani Dilli
• Not So Obvious Treasures To Discover In New Zealand’s South Island

Mint

• The Nose Knows: Noodle Soup, Faux Eggs And The World’s Cheapest Michelin Star Restaurant in Hong Kong

India Food Network

• Living The Village Life In Rayri Kinara

Startups

Stanford Social Innovation Review

• Early Stage Enterprises Need More Than Money

Next Billion

• Strategies For Doing Business In Emerging, Diverse Rural India
• New Research On The Business Of Healthcare In India
• ClikJaundice: Diagnosing Jaundice By Phone
• Barefoot Power Looks To Reduce The Cost Of Living Off Grid In India
• The Female Sanitary Revolution

Triple Pundit

• Mainstreaming Innovations For Low-Income Markets In India

Your Story

• My Dentist: The Dental Clinic That Doesn’t Drill A Hole In Your Wallet
• Alma Connect: Harnessing The Power of Alumni Networks
• Groceries Have A New Address – The World Wide Web
• SkyFi Labs – Turning Engineering Theory Into Practical Programs

I became a mom for the first time in September 2016. It was like nothing the books told me it would be. Motherhood didn’t come as naturally as I thought it would and everything felt 100x harder than my mind had imagined.

I felt compelled to write about my journey as a mother.

This space is called P for Parenting because I wanted to share thoughts and stories not only on parenting kids but also on raising better parents! While my food blog evolved into something I did for a living, this parenting blog is more about creating a safe space for the thoughts that cross my mind as a mother.  Here, I write letters about random things – my favourite one is to my friend, Sleep  and also hope to do my bit in bringing awareness about biases that I face as a mother, like this one on being able to freely breastfeed in public.

Head on to P for Parenting to read more

The Bawi Bride Kitchen started as a food blog in 2013 right after I got married and discovered that I didn’t know how to cook any of the Parsi food my husband loved to eat. What began as an online diary to record recipes my mom shared with me evolved into a complete food blog that shared lost Parsi recipes and since 2015, a full scale catering kitchen that has served more than 5000 happy customers.

My goal with the Bawi Bride Kitchen is to show people that there is more to Parsi food than Dhansak.

To achieve this goal I share not only recipes but the stories and memories behind those dishes. When I was in Mumbai I also used to conduct various experiences like food walks and cooking demonstrations and in 2019, I launched a short series podcast, Not Just Dhansak which spoke to key Parsi food entrepreneurs to get their take on Parsi food.

Since 2014, our work has been covered by almost 100 media publications and my food blog has won India’s Best Regional Food Blog Award by the Food Bloggers’ Association of India for four consecutive years. It is my dream to one day be able to write a book documenting everything I have learned about my community’s cuisine so that I may leave it behind for all the Bawi Bride’s that come after me. Until then…

Head on to www.bawibride.com to learn more