Category: Legacy & Love | Motherhood & Moxie

  • Pregnancy Plans and Plot Twists

    Pregnancy Plans and Plot Twists

    The Lived Experience of Pregnancy For most of my career, I’ve been a planner. In government and international development, you learn to thrive on spreadsheets, work plans, and five-year strategies. Everything has a process. Everything has a timeline. Everything has a fallback plan — or at least, it used to. Pregnancy laughed in the face…

  • Inheritance, Not Rebellion

    Inheritance, Not Rebellion

    Category: Legacy & Love | Motherhood & Moxie When people hear I’m becoming a single mother by choice, they often assume it’s rebellion.For me, it feels more like inheritance. I come from a family of quiet revolutionaries. My parents were born into a conservative Bengali society where women were expected to follow, not lead, and…