I moved to the UK following my marriage in September 2009. Back in India, I was a well known radio presenter whose voice you could hear every morning, blasting through radio sets across 42 cities. Banners with my face plastered on them were standing tall everywhere. 

And with all that confidence comfortably tucked in my suitcase, I came here to London. 

For the next five years I knocked on every door to even get an internship, let alone a job. But rejections became something like morning coffee… I woke up to them.

Rejection! I was young. I wasn't prepared for rejection. They don't teach us how to deal with it. It is something bad. flawed. wrong. It shouldn't happen. I did not know what to do with so much of it… Rejection played with my mind.

I went into clinical depression and amidst all this my beautiful daughter came into our lives. The only thing that ever gave me joy was to take photos of her. Without any formal training in photography at all, I just somehow found my creative rhythm. 

I started photographing Aayat with our dog Mustang and just created image after image after image of them together and soon it turned into an entire series. From there my journey of becoming a photographer started…

Art is healing I have realised. I don't have many fancy words to explain what photography has done for me... but all I can say is that it came to my rescue at a very timely segue in my life. 

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