Contents

Preface

Prologue

1. That Sinking Feeling

2. Kathmandu

3. Mumbai

4. New York

5. Meeting Dr Chi

6. Broken, but Picked Up by Love

7. Surgery

8. Dr Makker Enters My Life

9. How Bollywood Came to My Rescue

10. New Apartment Joys

11. Chemotherapy

12. Cancer-Free

13. Stepping Out—Fearfully

14. Team Mumbai

15. Home to Kathmandu and Chaos Again

16. Vulnerability—The Chink in My Armour

17. Birthing the New Me in My Sanctuary

18. Lessons Learnt, Wisdom Passed On

19. Cancer as My Gift

20. Not Only through the Male Gaze

21. Living the New Me

Illustrations

Epilogue

Footnote

5 Meeting Dr Chi

19 Cancer as My Gift

Acknowledgements

Books and Resources: My Portable Magic

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