I build with code. I write with memory.
Both begin with people.
Survival, Separation and the Flood of 26 July 2005
A young traveller’s routine trip from Surat to Mumbai is disrupted by the floods of 26 July 2005. As the route home becomes uncertain, an encounter with strangers becomes a story of survival, connection and the people waiting for him.
Inspired by my own experience of the Mumbai floods, this is a work of fiction. Characters and situations have been adapted to tell a wider human story.
I returned to an unfinished manuscript after a long break. Completing it meant revisiting a memory that had stayed with me for more than twenty years, and finding a way to share it through fiction.