Hasti in Rome is a collection of twenty-six poems written over twenty-six months of living in Rome, each capturing the quiet relationship that forms between a place and the person learning to call it home.

While inspired by the author's own journey, Hasti is not only a person. It becomes anyone who has ever arrived somewhere unfamiliar, carrying memories of one home while learning to embrace another. In that sense, this becomes as much your story as it is hers.

Through moments of culture shock, friendship, faith, food, history and everyday life, these poems explore what it means to belong without losing who we truly are. Rooted in the experiences of India and Italy, they reflect on how places shape us, how cultures enrich one another, and how we can remain true to our values and identity while embracing a new place with openness and curiosity.

More than a collection about Rome, Hasti in Rome is a book for everyone who has ever moved, searched for belonging, or discovered that home can exist in more than one place.