Padma Yadav(2)

Padma is a wonder. Your devoted wife and best friend, she also happens to have the most creatively brilliant soul you've ever encountered. She's a medical doctor and you're a lawyer, one of the few professions that her demanding family would approve of. She got in touch with her creative side as a mom spinning fantastical bedtime stories for your kids Maia(14) and Raul(11) blending the Indian stories her parents shared with her and Greek myths your kids learned about in school. She's a diagnostician at her hospital. One day she filled in for storytime at the pediatric cancer ward, spinning those same stories and loving it. Suddenly Dr. Yadav's Storytime was a local sensation and you were able to convice her to write some of her tales down. Thanks to social media Doctor Yadav's storytime didn't stay a local sensation for long even if Padma was baffled by her status as a local celebrity. Celebrity just isn't who Padma is, as a doctor she shuns the spotlight and always credits the whole medical team for her own actions. She just hasn't been raised to do things for herself, even something as small as practicing medicine under her maiden name was a big deal for her. What she claims to love about her storytelling isn't the stories it's bringing a smile to the faces of children that often have very little to smile about... but you can tell that she loves it. She reluctantly published a selection of her children's stories illustrated by the kids from the hospital. It was sweet, beautiful, and helped the hospital afford high tech upgrades to their surgical suite. A publisher came calling, they wanted to distribute the children's stories more widely and also asked if Padma was working on a novel for more mature audiences. She has been for years and from what you've seen it's utterly brilliant. After a long talk with Padma she agreed to take a six month sabbatical to finish the novel... along the way she learned to slow down and savor the little things with the kids.