Chronicling a middle-class girl’s tumultuous journey over five decades, the Diary of a Lutyens’ princess is satirical yet inspirational, heart-breaking yet heart-warming. Starry-eyed young akshraa defies her parents to marry the man she loves, but soon realizes that youthful passion does not always translate into everlasting togetherness. Carving a professional niche for herself in her early thirties, she becomes one of a rare and successful breed of ‘entrepreneurs’. her life takes another turn when she falls for and ties the knot with suryaprakash, the scion of one of the first families of business India, a package that comes riddled with its own set of sorrows. But akshraa retains her vivacity and spiritedness, penning witty observations on the Superficially perfect lives of the elite, beautiful people in exotic locales, yet in a state of search and sufferance, undergoing the same travails as any one of us. While doing so, she discovers her own path to salvation, as she bravely resets the rules of femininity: to own up to ambition and a life-on-purpose is sexy.