Desi Parenting

The parenting book India's 90s generation has been waiting for - written not by an expert, but by a dad.

You Googled everything. You asked every aunty. You joined five WhatsApp groups and left four of them. You watched reels about gentle parenting while losing your temper. You worried about milestones, mustard oil, screen time, and whether khichdi counts as a superfood.You are doing it right.

Written by a first-time Indian father who built his entire parenting philosophy from scratch, this book speaks directly to the couple navigating a newborn.

✦ What really happens on Day 3 after the baby arrives - and why your wife needs you to look at her, not the baby

✦ Why gentle parenting was never about saying nothing - and what it actually demands of you

✦ The crawling that never came, the milestones that are averages not deadlines, and the aunty who still hasn't recovered

✦ Dal, khichdi, ghee and dahi - why your grandmother's kitchen was a nutritional powerhouse long before quinoa existed

✦ Screen time, bhajans, and the TV that taught a toddler to run to the temple

✦ How to raise a daughter in India with zero apology and complete freedom

This is not a manual. It is a mirror. Every parent who reads it will find themselves somewhere in these pages - in the parking garage floor moment, in the 3am feed, in the pride of a tiny fist peeking out of a yellow blanket.

The internet raised you. Now YOU raise your child.