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• Is the daughter of a Merchant Navy Captain.
• Spent first seven years of her life in globetrotting on board cargo ships carrying potatoes, onions and rice.
• Was mentored by a photographer during her first year in St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, Maharastra.
• Started her career as a model and appeared in TV commercials like Gold Spot, Philips, Trigger Jeans, Akai, Elle 18, and many more.Worked as a Veejay for MTV early in her career.
• Had featured in MTV's Most Wanted (1992) which was the highest rated show on MTV for years.
• Enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, New York, USA, during 2001 and took up a writing course in New York University.
• Lost her luggage, passport and visa papers while traveling by Kuwait Airways, which incidentally garnered her a debut role in the Bollywood film Ishq Vishk (2003).
• Was on MTV Asia for 8 years hosting every show, based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai.
• Hosted an American travel TV show named Culture Shock in the year 2007.
• Moved back to india during November 2017 after spending seven years in New York.
• Has written travel articles in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Femina, and Elle.