[9] She eventually graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics,[1] and in the French language as part of a double major.
[6][10] She began writing while in Mumbai, and her debut novel Opening Night was published by HarperCollins and launched in 2012 by Chetan Bhagat.
[13] Her second novel The Windfall was also published and launched in the same year,[7] it was a humorous fiction marketed as a debut novel and depicted the life of a middle class Indian man who had suddenly encountered wealth.
[9][3] According to ELLE magazine, it broke stereotypes of exoticism surrounding India while according to The Wire, it was a "shrewd and unstintingly funny story about the neuroses of New Delhi's 1%".
[1][8] The Hindu gave it a mixed review objecting at its lack of nuance and inaccuracies in social and cultural depictions.