Ira Menon grew up in Army cantonments and Railway colonies across India, moving a new city every two years. She learned early on that while languages and recipes change every 200 kilometers, the way people fall in love remains exactly the same.
Now settled in a quiet corner of Pune with her husband and a very opinionated cat, she spends her days matchmaking her fictional characters. She writes stories about ordinary people finding extraordinary love in the chaos of modern India