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{{short description|Indian poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nanditha K. S.
| image = Nandithayude kavithakal.jpg
| caption = Nanditha's picture on her book ''Nandithayude Kavithakal''
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1969|5|21}}<ref name="KL">{{cite web |title=നന്ദിത. കെ. എസ് |url=http://keralaliterature.com/malayalam-writers-%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%82-%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B4%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D/%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4-%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%86-%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D-2-nandhutha-k-s/ |website=Keralaliterature.com |date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Wayanad]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|1|17|1969|5|21|df=y}}<ref name="KL"/>
| education = [[Master of Arts]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calicut]]
| spouse =
| occupation = Poet, lecturer
| notable_works = ''Nandithayude Kavithakal''
}}

'''Nanditha K. S.''' was a poet from [[Kerala]] who wrote poems in [[Malayalam]] and [[English language|English]]. Her poems were discovered in her diary after her death and published as a collection.

==Biography==
Nanditha was born on May 21, 1969, in Madakkimala, [[Wayanad district]] to M. Sreedhara Menon, who retired as General Manager at Kalpetta Cooperative Bank and Prabhavathy Menon.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-26 |title=നന്ദിത: പരാജയപ്പെട്ടവളുടെ അവസാന കവിത |url=https://janayugomonline.com/nandithayude-kavithakal-review/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Janayugom Online |language=en-US |agency=[[Janayugom]]}}</ref><ref name="SIJE">{{cite journal |last1=Soumya |first1=Sahadevan |last2=P. |first2=Nagaraj |title=An in-depth study on the life and works of K.S Nanditha |journal=Shanlax International Journal of English |date=2017-06-19 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=5–9 |url=http://www.shanlaxjournals.in/pdf/ENG/V5N3/ENG_V5_N3_002.pdf |issn=2320-2645}}</ref> After her schooling in Government Ganpath Model Girls High School, Chalappuram, she completed her higher education from [[Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College]], [[Farook College]], [[University of Calicut | University of Calicut English Department]] and [[Mother Teresa Women's University|Mother Teresa Women's University, Chennai]].<ref name="KL" /> After completing her B.A. and M.A. degrees, she worked as guest lecturer for English at the [[Wayanad Muslim Orphanage|Wayanad Muttil Muslim Orphanage Arts and Science College]].<ref name="SIJE"/> 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.”<ref name="SIJE"/>

Nanditha took her life on 17 January 1999.<ref name="Mat">{{cite news |title=നന്ദിതയുടെ കവിതകള്‍ |url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/book-reviews/--1.177032 |work=Mathrubhumi |language=ml |access-date=6 May 2021 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507121932/https://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/book-reviews/--1.177032 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The reason why Nandita committed suicide remains unknown.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=കണ്ടെത്തിയപ്പോൾ തുമ്പിലെ അഗ്നി കെട്ടു പോയ തൂലിക |url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/literature/literaryworld/remembering-nanditha-poet-and-works.html |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=ManoramaOnline |agency=[[Malayala Manorama]]}}</ref> After her death, her parents discovered a diary of her poems which she had not shared with anyone.<ref name=":0" /> 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]].<ref name="mathrubhumi">{{cite web|title=Ormakalil Nanditha|url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/women/features/nanditha-poet-malayalam-news-1.764347|publisher=Mathrubhumi|publication-date=1 Jan 2016|language=Malayalam|access-date=24 December 2019|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027000933/https://www.mathrubhumi.com/women/features/nanditha-poet-malayalam-news-1.764347|url-status=dead}}</ref> The first edition of the book was published in 2002<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nair |first=Gopika Sidharthan,Aparna |date=2024-02-07 |title=Reviving Nanditha's legacy: Viral poems and the dark academia trend among youth |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2024/Feb/07/reviving-nandithas-legacy-viral-poems-and-the-dark-academia-trend-among-youth |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> and ninth edition ({{ISBN|978-9385269585}}) in 2021 by Olive Books.

Death and love were common themes in her poems.<ref name="deccan">[https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/mollywood/101017/the-woman-who-loved-death.html The woman who loved death], Deccan Chronicle, 10 Oct 2017</ref> Though most of her poems were in Malayalam she also wrote in English.<ref name="mathrubhumi"/>
Her life was the subject of the film titled Nanditha released in 2017.<ref name="deccan"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdznE1ZdKp8 Documentary on Nanditha in Malayalam]

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[[Category:1969 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian writers]]
[[Category:Women writers from Kerala]]
[[Category:Poets from Kerala]]
[[Category:Malayalam poets]]
[[Category:People from Wayanad district]]
[[Category:University of Calicut alumni]]
[[Category:Suicides in India]]

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