My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.
My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.
I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.
My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.
I'm a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I've spent my whole life in government accommodation, and it's been lovely.
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.
I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.
