Nandita is an artist who draws on clothes for a living and is currently conducting research on ‘waiting’. She has spent her adult years in many places doing different things as a farmer, librarian , designer, architect, waiter and mason. Being formally educated in architecture and anthropology, she cannot believe that she gets paid to talk to strangers.

After being a volunteer for more than half a decade in Auroville. She now works as an independent designer and illustrator helping creatives and design studios get more eyes on their work.

She has recently had her solo exhibition at Berber and Q, London, January 2024. Her poems and illustrations have been published in The Robeson, a PoC-led magazine at SOAS, London in 2021. In 2024, her illustrated book cover was short-listed for the World Illustrations Award. While being an avid reader and writer of zines, tweets, poems, articles. she doesn’t finish a lot of the books she starts. Her reportage and academic writing is yet to appear in public eye. She is the daughter of three galaxies who look like parents.When she is not working, she can be seen drawing stories at a cafe with dirt on her knees.