The smallest things keep turning out to be carrying the largest stories.

I'm a social science researcher. For fourteen years, my work has been on culture, women's lives, livelihood, public health, and financial inclusion in South Asia and East Africa, mostly through the lens of how people live, work, and care for each other in groups.

Three years ago, my first child arrived, and then the second. Something about becoming a new parent in India shifted what I wanted to write about. The patterns I had spent a decade studying in the field began to look like the same patterns sitting inside my own house. Who notices what needs doing. Who tracks the next thing. Whose time gets counted as work and whose doesn't.

This site is where I follow that thread. Each piece begins with something I noticed and ends with what the data actually says.