Nandini is a  writer, activist, chronicler, and oral historian, has been a full-time activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). Over the past decade and a half, she has been working on the oral histories of the Narmada struggle and bringing these out in the public domain in the form of books and in digital format. Former president of the Oral History Association of India (March 2020- March 2022), Nandini’s latest work is The Struggle for Narmada: An Oral History of Narmada Bachao Andolan by Adivasi Leaders Keshavbhau and Kevalsingh Vasave.