Like the protagonists of her novel Residue , Nitasha Kaul is from Kashmir but grew up in Delhi. After her degrees up to a doctorate in Economics from universities in India and England, she gave up her academic post and went travelling, writing and collecting pictures of streets. She is currently a writer and independent scholar. In addition to fiction and poetry, she has published a book on economics and philosophy. Her next book is about Bhutan, a place she feels at home.