Memoir & Biography Writer for the Indian Diaspora in Singapore
You built a life in Singapore. Your children are growing up Singaporean. The story of how your family got here, and why, is one only you can tell, and only for so long.
I write memoirs and authorised biographies for the Indian community in Singapore. For the professional who came for a job and stayed for a life. For the business family that runs between Chennai and Shenton Way. For the adult child who can feel that the window is closing. In your voice, in strict confidence, one client at a time.
I understand this is tender. Asking a parent to tell their story can feel like admitting they will not always be here. It is also the most loving thing you can do for them, and for your own children. I hold that with care, because for the families I work with, this is never just a book.
Begin the conversation See how it works
22 years writing
A bestselling biography
India and the diaspora, both
The handover is already happening, whether the story is told or not
The Indian community in Singapore is settled, accomplished, and at a quiet turning point. The generation that arrived in the boom years, for one posting that became a life, is older now. The children are fully Singaporean. They know the shape of the family story, the city your parents left, the year they came, but not the inside of it. Not the fear on the flight. Not the first lonely Deepavali far from home. Not what was given up so they could have this.
That inside is the part that vanishes first. It lives only in the memory of the people who carried it, and memory is not a safe place to keep something precious. Every year the details soften. The handover of a family is not only money and a name. It is the story, and the story is the one thing that gets lost in the move from one generation to the next, unless someone writes it down while it can still be told.
A story that lives in two registers at once
A Singapore-Indian story is a between-two-worlds story by its nature. There is the India your family left, with its references that need no explanation for an Indian reader. There is the Singapore you built, legible to your children but foreign to your cousins back home. The whole craft of this book is making it work for both at once: an aunt in Chennai and a grandchild in Singapore, reading the same page and each feeling it is theirs.
I am based in Mumbai and write for, and am read by, Indians across South-East Asia. I know both registers. A book that only lands in one country is half a book, and your family does not live in one country.
What I write
Your memoir, or your parents’
Your life, or the migration story of a parent captured while they can still tell it. Often a gift from a settled child to an ageing parent, and the one gift that has a deadline. More on diaspora memoir.
Authorised biography and founder story
The definitive account of a life and a company worth documenting, told in full, held in confidence. More on authorised biography.
Family legacy book
The multi-generational story of a family and its enterprise across India and Singapore, built for a generation that grew up between worlds. More on family legacy.
How the work goes
One conversation, no pressure
We begin with a single call. I ask the questions almost no one has asked you, or your father, about your own life. This is not a sales pitch. It is me listening for what is actually there, and you deciding whether you want to do this at all.
A page in your voice
You send a short voice memo. I send back one page, written as you. You read it and ask one thing: does this sound like me? If it does, we go on. If it does not, you have lost five minutes and nothing else.
Finding the shape
I find the one question at the centre of the life. The wound that became the gift. The single thing that makes this story yours and not every other story of leaving and building.
The interviews
Recorded sessions, unhurried, scheduled around you or your parent’s energy. Where it serves the book, with the people who knew you differently. Documents, photographs, the things others remember that you have forgotten.
The writing
I write in stages. You read each one. The voice is checked against you at every turn, until a reader would feel they are in the room with you, not with a writer.
The book in your hands
Delivered with a revision cycle at every stage. It is finished not when it is complete, but when you hold it and feel it is exactly right. Full copyright is yours. My name appears nowhere unless you want it to.
Why trust me with it
I do not have a wall of client logos, because the most significant work I do is confidential, and that is the point. What I can show, I will. I wrote the authorised biography of one of the doyens of Indian IT, built from records going back almost forty years, and it became a bestseller. I have ghostwritten three more bestsellers, held under NDA. I published a novel now in film development, and I co-produced five short films. Before any of that, I built three startups and ran a communications firm for twenty years, for Mahindra, Godrej, and ICICI Bank, among others.
Most ghostwriters are writers who never built anything, or executives who cannot write. I am both, which is why the work reads like neither.
Who this is for
People who can feel the clock and refuse to let the story go unwritten. Adult children who want a parent’s life held while the parent can still tell it. Founders and families whose real story has never been told in full. If your story lives in two countries and the people who carry it will not always be here, this is for you.
Who this is not for
People who want a keepsake printed by next week, or who want every hard or tender thing removed until only a highlight reel is left. This work is honest, unhurried, and made to last. If speed and volume matter more than depth and truth, a template product will serve you better.
Common questions
How do we work across the distance?
Over video and voice memo, in sessions scheduled around you, with in-person work where it earns its place. The depth does not drop with the distance. I have done this for families across South-East Asia.
My parent is ageing. Have we left it too late?
No. Start now and you start while the memory is vivid and the parent can tell it themselves. The sessions are gentle and paced to their energy. The version of this work to avoid is the one that begins after they are gone, when the story can only be built from the outside.
Is everything confidential?
Yes. An NDA is signed before any story is shared, and you control every page.
Will it sound like me, or like a stranger?
Like you. We begin with a page in your voice so you can judge before committing to anything.
What does it cost?
Priced by depth, not word count. Scoped after a first conversation. See investment.
Can it be a gift, where my parent does not know yet?
Often it is. I handle that first conversation with care, so the parent feels honoured, not interviewed.
Go deeper: memoir for the diaspora, authorised biography, family legacy books, founder stories.
What you will have when it is done
A book, in your voice, that your children can hold and their children after them. The day your father landed, in his own words. The reason your mother was braver than you ever knew. The story that, right now, exists only inside a memory that will not last forever, set down in a form that will. People spend their whole lives building things that fade: companies change hands, money moves, houses are sold. This does not fade. It is the closest thing there is to keeping a voice in the room after the person who owned it has gone.
A word on waiting
Almost everyone waits. For retirement, for the right moment, for the full story to feel finished. The families whose stories survive are the ones who started before they felt ready, while the person who lived it was still here, the memory vivid, the documents still in a drawer somewhere. There is no perfect time for this. There is only now, and later. Now is the only one that still has them in it. That is the whole reason I do this work, and the whole reason not to put it off.
Tell the story before the window closes.
Your parents can still tell it. That will not always be true. Tell me about them, in confidence. I respond within 48 hours.