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.
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 had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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.
I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.
