Namrata Wakhloo was born and raised in Srinagar in a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit family. She did her schooling at Presentation Convent, Srinagar. She has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s in management from Pune. Namrata works in the corporate sector in human resources. She lives with her husband and two children in Gurugram, India. Namrata’s interests include reading, amateur photography and blogging.