Born in 1941, Doe Nair spent her childhood and youth in Shimla (India) where she had the privilege of attending premier educational institutions. She did her entire schooling, at Loretto Convent, Tara Hall and graduated from St Bede’s College. 

She married a Cavalry Officer of the Indian Army and spent twenty-eight years of her life as an Army wife, during which time she lived in many parts of India including the remote far Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. There she spent her time working with the local tribal women. While in Wellington, South India she worked for three years as a volunteer outreach worker with the Family Planning Association Of India, a chapter of “Planned Parenthood” London. This work took her to tribal’s in forgotten regions of Tamil Nadu untouched by modern civilisation.

In Ambala (North West India) in the early `70’s, she helped establish Mother Teresa’s Shishu Bhawan, which looks after abandoned, orphaned and destitute children.

Doe has also been writing for newspapers and magazines since 1970. She was a freelance journalist for The Tribune, Chandigarh, The Times of India, New Delhi, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, The Statesman, Calcutta, The Imprint, Bombay and Eve’s Weekly, Bombay. She also edited The Ooty Hunt, a magazine for the Ooty Hunt Club.

She has authored two books, “I Married The Army” and “ZOJILA 01 Nov 1947” and edited “The Book of Remembrance”. The latter lists the names of all the combatants of the Indian Defence Forces who laid down their lives for the country after independence in 1947.Doe worked very closely with the NGO AIDS CELL at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

She evolved the “Cycle of Life… conception to death” module for sex education in schools. This has since been adopted by NACO and UNESCO as the “Tree of Life/ Learning for life” module and is widely recommended for sex education in Indian schools.

She has attended and presented papers at many Seminars and Workshops on social issues organised by the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), the ILO, and UNESCO, UN Delhi office.

Doe founded WOMEN’S ACTION GROUP-C.H.E.L.S.E.A .in 1992.