India, Aug. 13 -- Veteran author and educator Nisha da Cunha passed away at her residence on Tuesday evening at the age of 92, leaving behind a literary legacy as rich as her fiction. Remembered for her short story collections, Nisha also inspired an entire generation to fall in love with books as a professor of literature.

Born into a Gujarati political family-her father was the late finance and home minister HM Patel-da Cunha spent her early years in Delhi. In an interview with this writer in September last year, she spoke of how she grew up in a home filled with books, of her father, who boasted of a wonderful library and encouraged his five daughters to read in their free time. After completing her studies, she taught English literat...