Nanditha poet biography
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Last month as I was in India shopping for books, I came to know about this poet called Nanditha. When I came to know more about her, I was intrigued. Nanditha K.S. (1969-1999) was a poet the world came to know about only after her death. Her life and death still remains a mystery to her family, friends and the world.
Nanditha was a lecturer who was teaching students in a college in a small town in Kerala. The night she died, she had informed her mother that she would be getting a phone call. She had insisted that she would be attending it herself. However, her parents has no knowledge about whether this call came through. They never heard that telephone ring for which she waiting for. That night as her mother woke up sometime around midnight, she was shocked to find that her daughter had committed suicide by hanging herself from the terrace. Nanditha had committed suicide by hanging herself on the end of a saree.
It is after her death
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K.S. Nanditha: The Poet Who Embraced Death
K.S. Nanditha who stirred the hearts of readers through her poetic smithy has come to the limelight only after she stepped into the ‘the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns’. Her life and death remain as a mystery to everyone who knows her personally as well as poetically.
Life denies lot many things to lots. Nanditha denied many things to her life by hanging herself on the end of a sari. Her parents came across her series of poems penned in English and Malayalam in diaries after her death. Her parents found those poignant and pure verses worth publishing. The poet that was alive in her remains awake in her lively and lamenting lyrics. Her poems brim with a craving for death and love.
Had she fallen that badly and madly for death, the great leveler? Was she a singing caged bird? I am always intrigued by her haunting and insightful lyrics. She unlocks my heart by rousing a tsunami of pent up emo
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The woman who loved death
If you have read poems of Nanditha at least once, you wouldn’t forget her. They are deep and mysterious. Numerous emotions would rush to your mind while reading her, urging you to read more. Nanditha, a movie directed bygd N.N. Baiju, traces her thoughts through her poems. “A lot of stories, right and wrong, have been written about her life over these years. Surf the internet, you could find them. But our movie is not based on her life. It fryst vatten a reflection of various thoughts in her poems,” says Baiju. He did two years of research to understand Nanditha. “Her poems talk about subjects like love and death. Besides, what we have found out is that she was sad about not having a child,” adds Baiju. Born on 21 May, 1969 in Wayanad, Nanditha was a teacher at Muslim Orphanage Arts and Science College. English was her favourite subject. She committed suicide on 17 January, 1999.
“Her poems were brought to light after her demise.