I Promise a Sonnet to the Sea
A poignant poem celebrating love and nature, tinged with sadness, by Dr Nandini, exclusively for Different Truths. Often I visit you as a tramp and come back like an...
The Maps to Reach You
A poignant love poem, by Prof. Nandini, interwoven with the charm and magic of Nature, exclusively for Different Truths. “When feelings are immense, words stand poor.” From the blue...
The Comet
A poignant love poem, laced with gentle protest of an argumentative beloved, by Prof. Nandini, exclusively for Different Truths. “Please do not understand me too quickly.” ~ Andre Gide...
The Unending Road
A poignant love poem full of yearning, by Nandini, exclusively for Different Truths. We have come a long way, love, a long way! But the road to your heart...
Nature’s Negotiation
An evocatively intense love poem, by Nandini, exclusively for Different Truths. I hadn’t thought of writing about nature’s negotiation until you told me what stone we are carved from,...
Letter to my Unborn Daughter
In a confessional poem, Prof. Nandini writes a heart-wrenching letter to an unborn daughter, who was lost due to domestic violence. An exclusive for Different Truths. Tiny limbs smeared...
A Juvenile Love Letter
Prof. Nandini talks of a love affair between a much elderly teacher and a teenage girl. What happened? Did their love fructify. An exclusive for Different Truths. It’s my...
Half of Her Lovers are Half the World Away
A bold feminist poem, by Prof Nandini, where she lets her hair down, exclusively for Different Truths. Men who loved their wives and those who did not all fell...
A Very Different Story: No Goodbyes – III
Meeta in her paroxysms of emotions – candid, vulnerable, loving, doubting – emerges with her complexities. In the third part of the novella, by Prof. Nandini, the lovers depart,...
A Very Different Story: Love Deepens – II
Cyber love and long-distance relationship melted the 2000 Km distance between them. In the second part of the novella, by Prof. Nandini, love deepens. What happened to these love...