Have you ever felt like a misfit in your skin, career, gender, family, city, in the roles you playedor the ones you refused to?

In Color Coded, Urmila Menon paints an intimate portrait of self-discovery, identity, and belonging through vivid storytelling and soulful reflection. She unpacks the many shades of what it means to grow, love, and heal across cultures and generations.

Blending personal narrative with creative form and cultural insight, this book invites you to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with your truest self. Written with warmth and honesty, Color Coded is both a mirror and a map for women, immigrants, creatives, and dreamers, who oscillate between the polarities of belonging and acceptance.

Through fourteen pivotal chapters of self-discovery, the book invites you to reflect on your own journey using creative prompts designed to help you:
Unlearn the stereotypes and conditioning that hold you back.
Unravel who you are beyond the shoulds and systems.
Rebuild a life that is authentically yours in spirit and pace.

This memoir, serves as a quintessential guide on finding purpose in pain, a powerful revolution of self-reflection.

It is an invitation:
Pick up the mic. Share your story. Pass it on.