She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with English writer Gillian Hanscombe.
Her work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Hindi and Turkish.
[2] Suniti was sent to Woodstock, an American mission school in the Himalayan foothills,[2] and then to Rishi Valley in Andhra Pradesh[3] where Jiddu Krishnamurti used to come and talk to the children for a couple of months each year.
Kaliyug - Circles Of Paradise (play) and Flesh And Paper (poetry) were written in collaboration Gillian Hanscombe.
[3] Namjoshi has been influenced by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, her friend Hilary Clare, and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics.