[4][1] In addition to fiction, she writes and speaks about topics that cover the political economy, Bhutan, Kashmir, nationalism in India, gender and identity.

Nitasha Kaul was born in November 1976 in Gorakhpur, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, into a Kashmiri Pandit family that had migrated from the Downtown Mohalla of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

[6] Kaul graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Sri Ram College of Commerce, then affiliated with the University of Delhi.

Having received multiple research grants and awards for her research, writing, and activism, she is the author of over 150 publications, including 7 single-authored or edited scholarly and literary books, book chapters in numerous critical and ground-breaking edited collections, plus peer-reviewed original research articles in numerous journals across humanities and social science disciplines.https://westminster.academia.edu/NitashaKaul/CurriculumVitae[11] On October 22, 2019, Kaul served as one of the key witnesses at a United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing about the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir, following the revocation of special status within India.

Kaul has been a longstanding advocate of democracy, human rights, and rule of law, and a critic of extremist right-wing political projects including that of Hindutva in India, and particularly on matters of gender and economy.