My core belief:

No one is coming to save the princess, the princess has to save herself

Namaste!

Hi, I’m Sristy. I live in New Delhi and run Two Roads Studio, the city’s only space created to support women in entrepreneurship. In 2026 my goal is to build a reading room where women can read and relax.

I grew up as a brown girl in a conservative household. Stepping out alone wasn’t allowed, and most of the world existed only in my imagination. That restriction made me curious and restless.

At 21, I moved to Vancouver to study filmmaking. I made some questionable calls. Rented a room from a Craigslist guy who was growing shrooms, walked alone on the drug infested streets of East Hastings, lost my apartment keycard and had to wait in the freezing cold. None of it was smart but I was learning to deal with problems on my own.

I kept getting back up.

I briefly worked in Hollywood but quit due to long hours, started a film company that failed in its first year, produced ads for brands that never paid me, and waited tables to learn I was terrible at it. I felt like a relentless loser, yet I couldn’t stop trying.

Everything changed when a poetry video I filmed at a Delhi Poetry Slam event went viral, picked up by The Times of India, BBC, and German TV ARD. What started as one video became a full-time career for years — publishing poets, running festivals and workshops. I went all in, until burnout hit.

I left and traveled to magical, remote places across India — living on a quiet island in Goa, slowing down in Santiniketan, and driving 2,500 km to Coorg with my sister and our dogs, staying on a coffee estate and hiking forests. Travel refueled me and made me bolder, more willing to experiment.

Two Roads Studio was born from this journey. A space for women, especially women of colour, learning by doing, taking risks, and giving themselves permission to try.

Milestones

By 21, I moved out of my conservative parents' home &

experienced freedom for the first time

At 23, I started working in the Canadian Film & TV industry & gained valuable experience working in a crew

At 25, my poetry videos became viral on Youtube launching a
massive spoken word revolution among the youth of India

Between 26 & 28,

I hosted India's first writing retreats in Goa & Jaipur,
Helped 500 new authors self-publish their books
Hosted 100 + literary event including Ahmedabad Poetry Festival & Verses Payoff Festival feat Alok Vaid Menon.
Hosted spoken word workshops across schools and colleges of such as IIT Delhi, Mandi, Roorke, IIM Ahmedabad, British School
Lived in several remote places such as Divar Island & Santiniketan

At 29, after a failed relationship and a terrible burn-out I left everything behind to build myself anew in the ancient forests of Kodagu.

At 31, I found my way back to Delhi — with a shifted perspective and a mission to set up the Two Roads Studio, a non-profit built to help women claim financial power and cultivate a spirit of adventure.

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Sristy's Blog

India's relationship with blackness and why Black Women need to travel here

Growing up in India, I have lived in some of the remotest places you can imagine. And many of those places were extremely hard to reach. But for some reason I have seen white female travelers in all those places. But when it came to Black female travelers, I barely even saw them in the most popular Indian tourist sites. I wondered where they were, if they even traveled, or is it the fact that they don't like India so they choose other destinations to go to? Well India has not

1 hour ago4 min read

Why Adult Indian Daughters need to move out of their parent's home

In India, moving out means: “You don’t love your parents enough.” In the West, moving out means: “You’re trying to figure out who you are.”

Dec 9, 20254 min read

Almost died, but survived to tell the tale

With no street lights on the forest roads, our small car's headlight had the most crucial job to keep us on track as we started driving from Suntikopa to Bylakuppe at 5 AM on 18th March 2022. It was the first time that the monasteries at Bylakuppe would open up for the Losar festival after nearly two years of being closed due to Covid 19. Bylakuppe is the home to many Tibetans living in exile in India. Located in Karnataka, right next to Mysore, it is a place is easily recogn

Nov 26, 20253 min read

What makes me angry

A poem about a list of things that I hate in my everyday life. From bad air to bad politics, everything pricks like a needle, leaving me a little angrier over things.

Nov 13, 20251 min read