I have always been associated with television, doing a bit of presenting for children's TV as a teenager, then performing specially commissioned 'dance -for -television' pieces and later presenting an entire season of Asia 2, a magazine programme on BBC 2.

Radio has been fun too, especially Michael Van Straten's show on LBC and the many BBC channels (Regional, Asian, Everywoman) that I have been on.

In recent years, I have been a guest cookery presenter, (really fab because you get to meet so many good chefs and taste their great food!) on the Carlton Food Network, Good Food Live and Spotlight Asia among others.

I continue to appear on Good Food Live and Bites (BBC's UK Food channel). I also film recipes for them that appear every now and then. My style of unfussy, healthy and fresh Indian cooking is really appreciated and viewership is greater than I could have imagined!

Apart from TV work in the UK, I have done shows for the South African Broadcasting Channel (SABC) and been a judge on Iron Chef (The Food Network, USA) and cooked for chatshow.net.

I write regularly for a variety of magazines, newspapers and journals including

• Mail on Sunday
• The Sunday Telegraph
• Delicious
• Waitrose Food Illustrated
• Elle
• Food and Travel
• You Magazine
• She
• Cookery Plus (India)
• Free Range
• Voyager (BMI Inflight magazine)