Nimita's Place

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<p>It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home.<br /><br />In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home.<br /><br />Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?</p>

Autorenportrait

Akshita Nanda was born in Pune, India in 1979 and has lived in Singapore since 1995. She has a BSc (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and knows what to do with radioactive viruses. She has been in publishing since 2002 and joined<em>The Straits Times</em> in 2007, where she currently writes about the arts.<em>Nimitas Place</em> is her first novel.

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