About a year ago, I took a step back from my business role to see if there is anything I can do to catalyze the sure but slow move towards gender equality.

Despite the obstacles it had put in my way, I wrote my first story in Hindi. I wrote it in red ink, so I could be taken just as seriously as my teachers.

One fine day, I decided to drop my well-paid job and cushy career to begin writing. For the longest time, I had dreamt of writing a book, and now, it was time to give my dream a chance.

I write because it makes for a great excuse to skip gym sessions, wiggle out of social commitments, and on certain occasions, get by the entire day without showing any signs of life.

“I write to feel liberated, I write to feel alive, I write because my writings will live longer than I will and that is one hell of a motivation,” writes author Shravya Bhinder.

“I write about strong and independent female characters who don’t let anything stand in their way,” writes Apeksha Rao.

“I am motivated to explore the nature and existence of women in the chaotic present times and likely future as well as the challenges they face,” writes author Richa Gupta.

Hunted by the Sky brought magic and fantasy back into my life. All I had to do was embrace the culture I was born into.

Why I write is a mystery to me but I just know I need to write. As long as my readers keep reading me and keep traveling with me and my stories, I know I will keep writing and not think to much about it.

I write because I need to express this. This restlessness, hunger, ambition, joy, grief, sustenance, existential angst I’m feeling.