Out of Office

I spent my childhood collecting academic awards, performing onstage, and making my teachers proud. Meanwhile, my sporting career consisted of injuring myself on a badminton net, refusing to wake up for tennis, and being told by my swimming instructor that I wouldn’t learn to swim in any of my future reincarnations.

Somehow, fifteen years later, I moved to Canada and voluntarily ran 160 kilometres in less than a month.

In this episode of Out of Office, I’m revisiting my rather unfortunate relationship with sports, the pressures of growing up as an overachiever in India, and how moving abroad changed my approach to running, fitness, and failure.

Featuring childhood sporting disasters, IIT preparation, life in management consulting, Canadian hiking trails, and the deeply inconvenient realization that you can enjoy something without being particularly good at it.

And to my swimming instructor: I still have several lifetimes to prove you wrong. 💋

No husband, no boyfriend, but somehow I’ve become the real housewife of my apartment. 💅🍝

Between 13-hour workdays, culinary experiments inspired by my travels, and a suspicious disregard for recipes, I’m discovering the joys (and occasional horrors) of cooking for one.

Featuring corporate chaos, questionable flavour combinations, and my very own Nigella Lawson era.

How do you become the most terrifying thing in a forest, only to end up face-to-face with a black bear?

It all started with a supposedly relaxing solo getaway to Whistler, a mountain town in British Columbia, Canada.

Featuring inappropriate footwear, a runaway stranger, and wildly misplaced confidence, this is one adventure I'll never live down.