Book 1 — Global Health, Access, and Lived Experience
This book documents life inside healthcare systems that are fundamentally broken—where clinics run out of basic supplies, diagnoses depend on money rather than need, and treatable diseases quietly become death sentences Centered on communities in Jamaica, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the narrative is built from direct interviews with patients, caregivers, and families navigating tuberculosis, cancer, and chronic illness without reliable access to diagnostics or treatment It captures the fear of waiting months for results, the normalization of preventable loss, and the emotional toll of choosing between medical care and survival By grounding policy and public health analysis in lived reality, the book exposes how global health failures are not abstract statistics, but daily, intimate tragedies—and why access to care is a moral obligation, not a privilege
Book 2 — Culture, Identity, and Youth Leadership
This book is rooted in my Indian identity and the generational weight that comes with it It traces the journey of my parents and grandparents—immigration, displacement, cultural erasure, and survival shaped by colonial legacy, economic instability, and the pressure to assimilate—while examining how those experiences echo into the lives of their children Through personal narrative and cultural analysis, the book explores growing up Indian in the West: carrying inherited trauma, unspoken sacrifice, rigid expectations, and the constant negotiation between tradition and selfhood It confronts cultural dysphoria not as confusion, but as a response to histories of loss and resilience, and argues that youth leadership emerges when young people learn to transform inherited pain into agency, voice, and collective responsibility