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Kavita Nandan

Kavita Nandan was born in New Delhi, grew up in Fiji and migrated to Australia after the Fijian coups d'état of 1987. She has lived in Canberra, Darwin and Sydney. Kavita is the author of Home after Dark and Return to what Remains. Her writing appears in ABR, Adda, Brushstrokes IV, Growing up Indian in Australia, Mascara, Meniscus, Poetry d’Amour 2023, Telling Australia’s Truth and Transnational Literature.

The N Word

for Jesse These things usually start small on the soccer field/in the playground – you be the goalkeeper, no you! The N word fell heavy from a rooftop like a gargoyle. You kept it together son but it hurt deep …

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