“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life”
-Virginia Wolf
I was born and bred in “the” Tatanagar township of India, to beautiful humble parents for whom life revolved around providing. So my life has been full of restrictions and struggles as can be expected, and for good reason. It’s been progressions from primary to high school, and then to college, and then to a well paying job and then to marriage, and then to kid(s). Wait! Not the kid(s) yet. Because that’s where I’ve broken the link to where society decides my accomplishments and future progressions.
So, after 3 decades and counting, it’s about pausing and embracing all that I’ve accomplished, feeling the love and removing that clutter of unending expectations. I work as a software professional over weekdays and weave dreams of exploring the world and breaking conventions during all other times. And bit by bit, I’m learning to love myself first before all else coz isn’t that the first secret to happiness.
So here I am, drowning expectations and chasing happiness. Come join me, in this expedition of mine and let’s sail together in this journey of life.
Why I Created This Space
I created That Brown Girl in Black Boots for reasons that feel both simple and stubbornly timeless.
First, for the love of reading and writing — an old love, maybe an endangered one. Somewhere along the way, our words started shrinking into captions and reels, fleeting as a thumb scroll. But I still believe in stories that linger, pages that breathe, paragraphs that let you pause.
Second, for capturing what my camera can’t. The quiet thrill of an empty road, the rush of new cities, breathlessly climbing till the top of a hill, the taste of something I can’t name — all the feelings, all the questions, all the parts of travel that don’t fit neatly into hashtags.
This space is where I gather them – my footsteps, my stray thoughts, my half-finished sentences — all the bits that remind me I’m here, I’m moving, I’m learning. If these stories make you want to read more, wander more, or write your own — then this corner of the internet is doing its job.
