

How one woman's agnosticism caused her to stand out in a land of religion
Awanthi Vardaraj lives and writes in the port city of Chennai, in the south of India, where she runs her own small artisanal bakery and keeps a garden full of jasmine plants and herbs she still cannot name. As a freelance writer, she mostly focuses on food, books, and travel, and nurtures a deep love for the Oxford comma and the semicolon.