Chaaya Ki Maaya

Aditi Sood is a novelist who divides her time between the misty hills of Ooty and the lakes of Udaipur, moving between the two depending on how generous she feels the sun is being. Raised in army cantonments across India, she grew up surrounded by shifting landscapes, temporary homes, and stories that rarely stayed where they began.

She studied Fashion Photography and Economics, an unusual combination that taught her to notice both the details people reveal and the truths they try to hide. Before turning to fiction, she spent years observing people through a lens, collecting moments, conversations, and contradictions that eventually found their way into her books.

At twenty-six, Aditi writes stories about love, longing, desire, betrayal, and the complicated ways people find their way back to one another. Her novels often feature women standing at the edge of impossible choices, searching for connection, freedom, and a place they can finally call home.

When she isn't writing, she can usually be found chasing colder weather, reading by a window, or convincing herself that one more cup of tea is a perfectly reasonable idea.