The Press Room

For the past five years, I've been creating something that has become far more than a book.

What began as writing a memoir during the solitude of lockdown slowly evolved into a single work of art, told through many different creative mediums.

Every element has been intentionally created to tell the same story from a different perspective.

Every photograph throughout the book was captured by me inside my own home during lockdown, teaching myself photography one image at a time. Every recipe was carefully chosen because it continues the emotional journey of the chapter before it, allowing food to become another form of storytelling. Every page, every layout, every design decision was created to feel less like reading a book and more like stepping into a memory.

That's why I built this website — not as an online bookstore, but as an extension of the world within the book.

The gallery is more than a collection of photographs. It invites readers to revisit the journey, recognise family members, friends, places, restaurants and moments hidden throughout the story. To ask questions. To share memories. To discover details they may have missed while reading. To connect photographs with chapters and chapters with real life.

A place where readers can discuss chapters, ask questions, share their own memories, interpret moments differently and contribute to the story's continuing life. Once a story is shared, it no longer belongs solely to the author. It belongs to everyone who finds a piece of themselves within it.

Even the music was created with purpose. Rather than listening while reading, each chapter has its own original score designed to be experienced afterwards. Music has a remarkable ability to awaken emotions words often leave behind. It allows us to sit quietly with a chapter, reflect upon it, and discover feelings we may not have realised were there.

The Road to Kali is not simply a memoir.

It is not simply a cookbook.

It is not simply photography, music or design.

It is an invitation to experience a story with every sense available to us.

Because I have come to believe that every one of us carries an extraordinary gift.

Most of us spend our lives searching for it in moments of success.