Dirty Little Secrets is a raw and honest account of Nandita Chakraborty’s journey to find love, her triumphs and failures in this expedition, and how the accident that caused her brain injury changed her life forever.  

Nandita Chakraborty is a cognitively disabled screenwriter and author of Rosemary’s Retribution and Meera Rising. As a form of therapy, Chakraborty has been writing novellas with strong autobiographical elements and has mixed realism with fantasy. She mostly writes about love, identity, sexuality, disability, and the cross-cultural conflict of being an immigrant.

Australian Indian writer Chakraborty learnt creative writing under the mentorship of Rosalie Ham (author of Dressmaker) and screenwriting at RMIT. Her novellas were selected finalists for the American Best Book Awards 2018. Chakraborty lives in Melbourne, works part-time as a librarian at the Moreland City Libraries and writes feature articles for Melbourne’s leading Indian newspapers, G’Day India and Indian Weekly. 

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