A man in a suit approaches you in the station, a family member encourages you to just give it a go, and a friend stays on the phone with you all night. These all have something in common.

Writer, poet, and creator of things, Nikita Gill, came for a chat ten days after her grandfather had died – what a privilege for someone to join you for a conversation in that time – and shared beautiful stories of kindness.

In one such story, a young Nikita sits on a jhula swing, in a garden full of flowers, drinking her grandmother's lemonade. And she starts to become a writer…

Thanks so much for being here!

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Nikita Gill's latest novel, Hekate, releases 16th Sept 2025.

Kind is created and hosted by Holly Newson

It was audio mixed by Nigel Powell

It was colour graded by Joel Sommazzi.

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