RAJI WRITES

SALA’s 2026 Writer’s Workshop draws on Nandita Dinesh’s theater background to explore how writing on the page can come alive when spoken rather than just read aloud. I spoke with Nandita before the festival about her experiences and journey. From Coimbatore to Pune, and on to Wellesley College Nandita Dinesh grew up in Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu — by her own description, "a small-town girl" in what was then a small town. She first moved out of Coimbatore to the Pune area to at