r Nishi Chawla is an academic, a writer and a filmmaker. Nishi Chawla has published ten plays, two novels, and seven collections of poetry. She has also written and directed four award winning art house feature films. She has also co-edited two global anthologies of poetry published by Penguin Random House: ‘Greening the Earth’ and ‘Singing in the Dark.’

    Dr Nishi Chawla holds a doctorate in English from the George Washington University, Washington D.C., and her post-doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. After teaching for nearly twenty years as a tenured Professor of English at Delhi University, India, Nishi Chawla had migrated with her family to a suburb of Washington D.C. She has taught English Literature for forty years at the University level.

   Nishi Chawla has recently completed her fourth feature film, “The Peace Activists” on Gandhi, MLK, and Thoreau. Three of her art house feature films are on Amazon Prime: ‘TechNous,’ ‘The Strange Case of Normalcy,’ and ‘Mixed Up.’ are streaming on Amazon Prime, and ‘The Peace Activists’ should also be on Prime by the end of 2024. 

  Dr Nishi Chawla’s play, ‘Kasturba versus Gandhi’ was staged in New York in an off Broadway production in June 2024. Her tenth play, ‘The Mahatma versus Gurudev’ has been accepted  to be staged in June 2025 again off Broadway, New York, making her one of the few Indian playwrights to ever have a play staged off Broadway.