Nalini Treebhoobun lives and works in Mauritius. After graduating at the Sorbonne University in Paris, she obtained a PHD at Delhi University for which she wrote a thesis on the heritage and evolution of different artistic forms brought by the Indian immigrants in Mauritius. A number of themes, such as ‘borders’, or ‘cyclical time’ are at the core of her aesthetics, underlying an epic vision of time, there is a voice which finds the right pitch – playful yet intense, sober and yet unpretentious, and, above all, humane and feminine.