I’m Rajalakshmi Ranganathan, Lakshmi to most.

I started as a mobile application developer, became a software engineer, then a Montessori teacher and school coordinator, and now I’m a writer. The road had many pauses, deviations, and delays — as an expat spouse, a mother to my twins, and a daughter to my parents.

Whenever I felt weary and disheartened by the wait for something I wanted deeply, my grandmother’s words would echo in my mind: “Delay does not mean denial.” I have carried those words ever since.

Today, more than eighteen years later, I’m here, rebuilding from where I left off.

I write because lives like mine — educated, capable, and interrupted — deserve to be told honestly.