TAHIRA KASHYAP KHURRANA

With the recent release of her new book, the author and filmmaker gets candid with Shraddha Kamdar on the brutal honesty of her writing, her process, and her unfiltered thinking

- Shraddha Kamdar

Author, filmmaker, mother to a seven-and a nine-year-old...much more. Of the many tags that might be used to sharp-witted Tahira Kashyan Khurrana, we think she prefers 'woman' the most! “I am loving the role I am playing in my real life which is of being a woman! I am just so glad I get to be this beautiful gender,” she tells us when we chat about her latest release, her new book - The 7 Sins Of Being A Mother (Juggernaut).

Reflecting her unfiltered personality – and her way of thinking, speaking, and writing 5- the book is a refreshing and brutally-honest account of her experiences of two pregnancies, the accidents by which they happened, and of becoming a mother. From trying to snatch moments with her boy” to have sex postpartum to her breasts leaking in public the one time she decided to go out with her girlfriends and enjoy herself, she has bared it all.

“I feel very claustrophobic and chained when somebody tries to filter my thoughts, which is why I don't make my family read my books, she reveals. “Yes, most of the time, it has boomeranged and I have upset many family members. She is often uncertain about how they will react to her series of adventures being out there in public.

But take our word for this: once you start reading, you will not be able to stop, nor hold back your laughter, and there will be many, many bouts of it. Kashyap Khurrana has also penned a few cathartic life episodes that she'd like to forget, because, during her process of writing, she does not think of boundaries.