As a child, Namita struggled with severe dyslexia, constantly failing academically. She hated school—where teachers repeatedly told her she was a failure. Growing up in India, a country where competition is ruthless, her parents were constantly worried about her future.
Sitting in class after class, where the words on the board made no sense, she felt lost in an environment where she was supposed to study, get ahead, and not think about love, passion, or parties. Namita found her own escape—into an imaginary world full of everything she longed for. She scribbled characters, scenes, and sketches in her diary but never dared to write.
Reading became a survival tool and the imaginary world she created an escape. She devoured everything, from Mills & Boon to Franz Kafka, but never believed she could be a writer. The letters on the page danced before her eyes, and her spelling was, in her own words, atrocious. Someone like her—someone who mixed up words and couldn’t spell—could never be a writer. So, she grew up to be an entrepreneur instead.
Then, at 40, life threw her another challenge—she was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition. As she underwent treatment, she decided it was time to face her deepest fear: writing. After all, she had moved countries, built two companies from the ground up—what could be more daunting than a failing kidney?
She sat down to finally write the story she had imagined as a teenager—back when she needed an escape from a world. That story had once saved her, and now, she hoped it could do it once again. Till I Do Us Part is that story—a story of rebellion, unabashed love, resilience, and finding one's own voice.
