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Missing Peace: Love Life & Me
Missing Peace-Love, Life, & Me documents the author's journey from Australia to India and back again in search of herself. It's a highly personal story with real characters and a narration that interweaves passion, betrayal, humiliation, friendship, and love. It is bold, inspirational, and compelling. It describes reality and its emotional roller coaster. It's about a woman finding herself lost between two cultures and desperately seeking to belong.
Will Nandita find what she is looking for? Through the pages of Missing Peace-Love, Life, & Me readers will discover her journey to redemption, love, and trust.
Come, let's take a walk together on this journey of mine with some amazing people I met along the way and the conversations I had with them; each taught me in their own special way about love, life, and me.
Nandita Chakraborty was born in Kolkatta, India in 1975 to a small conservative family who has always been associated with the arts. Her father won many accolades in the field of Indian Cinema. His film was the first Indian film in a regional language to win the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1980. Her sense of creativity started at a young age. The whole house would be surrounded by "Camera! Action! Glamour!" Well-known artists would sometimes spark her creative mind at the dinner table or at her mother's dressing table.
Along with her siblings, she was sent out to boarding school at the age of seven in the hills of Meghalaya, India. A few years later, the family settled in New Delhi, where she attended Sri Venketeswara University in New Delhi and she studied Political Science by day and Fashion and Visual Merchandising school by night.
Will Nandita find what she is looking for? Through the pages of Missing Peace-Love, Life, & Me readers will discover her journey to redemption, love, and trust.
Come, let's take a walk together on this journey of mine with some amazing people I met along the way and the conversations I had with them; each taught me in their own special way about love, life, and me.
Nandita Chakraborty was born in Kolkatta, India in 1975 to a small conservative family who has always been associated with the arts. Her father won many accolades in the field of Indian Cinema. His film was the first Indian film in a regional language to win the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1980. Her sense of creativity started at a young age. The whole house would be surrounded by "Camera! Action! Glamour!" Well-known artists would sometimes spark her creative mind at the dinner table or at her mother's dressing table.
Along with her siblings, she was sent out to boarding school at the age of seven in the hills of Meghalaya, India. A few years later, the family settled in New Delhi, where she attended Sri Venketeswara University in New Delhi and she studied Political Science by day and Fashion and Visual Merchandising school by night.
272 pages, Paperback
First published September 19, 2013
About the author
Nandita Chakraborty
4 books3 followersNandita Chakraborty was born in Kolkata, India in a small conservative family which has always been associated with the arts. Her father won many accolades in Indian cinema; his film In Search of Famine was the first Indian film in a regional language to win the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1980.
Nandita’s sense of creativity started at a young age. The whole house would be surrounded by action and glamour, where well known artists would spark her creative mind at the dinner table or at her mother’s dressing table.
Along with her siblings, she was sent out to boarding school at the age of seven in the hills of Meghalaya, India. A few years down the track the family settled in New Delhi, where she attended Sri Venkateswara University in New Delhi to study political science by day – and at night she would attend her fashion and visual merchandising school.
In her third year in college, she went on to pursue a Diploma in Visual Merchandising, leaving behind her career in political science. She began to work with a well -known designer in India, finding fame and fortune in that path – but it still didn’t leave her creatively satisfied. Lying awake in her bedroom, she would often write poetry to herself. Secretly she wrote short stories about her adventures in her designing career. Often these would either land in the dustbin or make their way into the hands of junk dealers making paperbacks for grocery shopping.
In 2000 she came to Melbourne where she started her own fashion boutique, later went on to work for banking. It was not until 2008 she joined RMIT to do a short course in creative fiction writing under the mentoring of Rosalie Ham Attending several book clubs, writing seminars, and participating in many writing competitions, she met with some remarkable writers. Later she began to write short stories for the local newspaper and magazine in Melbourne.
Her first book, mainly written for family and friends as a diary Missing Peace: Love, Life & Me, detailing her quest for peace, love, and life. It is an autobiography that she started writing in 2010 and was later self-published in 2013.
In 2011, she met with an accident while rock climbing, falling 40 meters and acquiring traumatic brain injury. After several months in rehab, she continued working but in 2016 she was back in rehab. She has a disability which cannot be seen, also known as a blind disability, and suffers from vestibular migraine with permanent cognitive issues, resulting in fatigue. Also known as the accidental writer for her successful novellas Meera Rising and Rosemary’s Retribution. The novellas were the product of her therapy rehab in 2016- 2017.
Currently, living in Melbourne, Australia, working as a library officer at Moreland city libraries. She is also a feature writer for Melbourne’s leading Indian newspapers The Indian Weekly and G’Day India. She’s also a screen writer and has writer few screenplays that are in developmental stages. In between her writings and therapies, she is constantly creating stories, new recipes and finding ways to keep her brain active.
Nandita’s sense of creativity started at a young age. The whole house would be surrounded by action and glamour, where well known artists would spark her creative mind at the dinner table or at her mother’s dressing table.
Along with her siblings, she was sent out to boarding school at the age of seven in the hills of Meghalaya, India. A few years down the track the family settled in New Delhi, where she attended Sri Venkateswara University in New Delhi to study political science by day – and at night she would attend her fashion and visual merchandising school.
In her third year in college, she went on to pursue a Diploma in Visual Merchandising, leaving behind her career in political science. She began to work with a well -known designer in India, finding fame and fortune in that path – but it still didn’t leave her creatively satisfied. Lying awake in her bedroom, she would often write poetry to herself. Secretly she wrote short stories about her adventures in her designing career. Often these would either land in the dustbin or make their way into the hands of junk dealers making paperbacks for grocery shopping.
In 2000 she came to Melbourne where she started her own fashion boutique, later went on to work for banking. It was not until 2008 she joined RMIT to do a short course in creative fiction writing under the mentoring of Rosalie Ham Attending several book clubs, writing seminars, and participating in many writing competitions, she met with some remarkable writers. Later she began to write short stories for the local newspaper and magazine in Melbourne.
Her first book, mainly written for family and friends as a diary Missing Peace: Love, Life & Me, detailing her quest for peace, love, and life. It is an autobiography that she started writing in 2010 and was later self-published in 2013.
In 2011, she met with an accident while rock climbing, falling 40 meters and acquiring traumatic brain injury. After several months in rehab, she continued working but in 2016 she was back in rehab. She has a disability which cannot be seen, also known as a blind disability, and suffers from vestibular migraine with permanent cognitive issues, resulting in fatigue. Also known as the accidental writer for her successful novellas Meera Rising and Rosemary’s Retribution. The novellas were the product of her therapy rehab in 2016- 2017.
Currently, living in Melbourne, Australia, working as a library officer at Moreland city libraries. She is also a feature writer for Melbourne’s leading Indian newspapers The Indian Weekly and G’Day India. She’s also a screen writer and has writer few screenplays that are in developmental stages. In between her writings and therapies, she is constantly creating stories, new recipes and finding ways to keep her brain active.
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