Biography

Nandita Chakraborty was born in Kolkatta, India
into a small conservative family who has always
been associated with arts. Her father was famous
Bengali film producer, Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty,
who won many accolades in the field of Indian
Cinema. His film, Aakaler Sandhane, was the first
Indian film in a regional language to win the
Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1980. He
also won the President’s gold medal and was an
international award winner at the Venice and
London Film Festivals.

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Along with her siblings she was sent out to
boarding school at the age of seven in the hills
of Meghalaya, India. Later down the track the
family settled in New Delhi, where she attended
Sri Venketeswara University and studied Political
Science by day - and by night she would attend
fashion and visual merchandising school.

In her third year in college, she went on to pursue
Diploma in Visual Merchandising in Delhi, leaving
behind her career in Political Science. She began
to work with a well- known designer in India; and
found fame and fortune down that path but it still
did not leave her creatively satisfied. In 2000, she
came to Melbourne, Australia where she started
her own fashion boutique with her then partner.

It was not until after a difficult divorce when she
began searching for something that would define
her purpose in life. She found solace in writing
again.