MUMBAI — Former KPMG consultant Namrata Yadav will stage her solo spoken-word debut show in Mumbai on March 28, 2026. The 28-year-old consultant-turned-writer left her corporate position in Singapore to pursue a full-time writing career in India.

Yadav joined KPMG as a consultant in 2022 after completing a bachelor's degree in law in India and pursuing a master's program in international relations at the National University of Singapore from 2019 to 2021. She worked as a research analyst at the National University of Singapore for six months before joining the consulting firm.

Yadav earned an annual salary of around 57,000 Singapore dollars, approximately equivalent to 44,500 US dollars, while working at KPMG. She spent up to 3,200 Singapore dollars per month on expenses, including rent, while living in Singapore.

"After 10 years in law school, research, and consulting, I decided I wanted a life I enjoyed rather than one spent living for the weekends," she said. "I quickly realized I was too right-brained for the job, and that corporate life did not feel right for me."

In December 2024, she was selected to perform spoken-word poetry at a literature festival in Lucknow, India. After returning to Singapore, she decided to quit her job and move back to India.

"I don't want to envy these people who get to have an hour onstage and entertain us. I wanted to be them," Yadav said about the performers at the literature festival.

In September 2025, she moved to Mumbai with a plan to find a job that could sustain her financially without being too demanding so she could focus on writing. After several job interviews in Mumbai, she decided she did not want another desk job.

She lives in a shared flat with two other creatives in Andheri West, Mumbai, paying 34,000 Indian rupees per month in rent, which was about 360 US dollars. She is using her savings from her corporate job in Singapore to sustain herself for the next few months.

She is posting about her writing process on social media to promote her show. She spends more than two hours each morning writing and continues working on her show in the afternoon.

Initially, her parents were unsupportive of her decision to move to India to pursue writing, but they later said they trusted her choices and work ethic. Her parents said they were relieved she had found something she wanted to continue doing and proud that she was challenging herself.