Kavita Nandan has lived and studied in India, Fiji, England and Australia; she has contributed creative and critical articles to various journals and newspapers. She completed a PhD at the Australian National University, 'Negotiating Histories and Homelands : the Diasporic Narratives of V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie' (2000) and her Masters degree was on Forster's A Passage to India. Nandan also published a critical work on Indian-Fijian writing Stolen Worlds : Fijiindian Fragments ([2005])