Nanditha K. S. was a poet from
Kerala
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who wrote poems in
Malayalam
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and
English
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. Her poems were discovered in her diary after her death and published as a collection.
Biography
She was born on May 21, 1969 in Madakkimala,
Wayanad district
Wayanad () is a district in the north-east of Indian state Kerala with administrative headquarters at the municipality of Kalpetta. It is the only plateau in Kerala. The Wayanad Plateau forms a continuation of the Mysore Plateau, the southern ...
to Shreedharan Menon and Prabhavathy Menon.
After her schooling in Government Ganpath Model Girls High School, Chalappuram, she completed her higher education from
Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College
The Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College is an aided college in Kozhikode, Kerala, India offering graduation and post-graduation courses. It is affiliated to the University of Calicut.
History
The original institution was founded by the Zamorin ...
,
Farook College
Farook College is a government-aided, autonomous, arts and science college located in Feroke near Calicut, Kerala, India. It is the largest residential post-graduate aided institution in Kerala affiliated to the University of Calicut; it was ...
,
University of Calicut English Department
and
Mother Teresa Women's University, Chennai.
After completing her B.A. and M.A. degrees, she worked as guest lecturer for English at the
Wayanad Muttil Muslim Orphanage Arts and Science College.
She applied to pursue a Ph.D. on the topic of “Personal Freedom – A Dilemma: An iconoclastic approach to the ideals of womanhood with reference to the novels of Gail Godwin.”
Nanditha took her life on 17 January 1999. After her death, her parents discovered a diary of her poems which she had not shared with anyone.
A collection of her poems written between 1985 through 1993 were published in a book form as ''Nandithayude Kavithakal'', under the initiative of the Malayalam literary critic,
M. M. Basheer.
The first edition of the book was published in 2002 and eighth edition in 2018.
Death and love were common themes in her poems.
[The woman who loved death](_blank)
Deccan Chronicle, 10 Oct 2017 Though most of her poems were in Malayalam she also wrote in English.
Her life was the subject of the film titled Nanditha released in 2017.
References
External links
Documentary on Nanditha in Malayalam
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1969 births
1999 suicides
1999 deaths
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian writers
Women writers from Kerala
Poets from Kerala
Malayalam poets
People from Wayanad district
University of Calicut alumni
Suicides in India