Her family is terrible at names, Twinkle Khanna says with characteristic candour and humour, and she may have just continued the tradition with her own written in first person columns and books titled “Mrs Funnybones”.

The origins of that go back to her childhood when she kept getting injured, breaking many bones.

“I have broken every bone in my body — every bone. There’s nothing left. I’ve broken my tailbone, I’ve broken my collarbone, I’ve broken my arms, my legs. I have 40 ligament tears on my left, 10 on my right,” Khanna said.

Those days of staying at home also laid the ground for her love of words and writing.

“It’s caused me a lot of pain over a period of time. But it also gave me, I would say, time to just sit and read. Because I couldn’t really move, so I had no choice. And it

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