Nandini Sahu

Nandini Sahu
Born	July 23, 1973 (1973-07-23) (age 38) G. Udayagiri, Orissa, India
Residence	New Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Writer , poet and literary critic
Children	One son
Parents	Mirabai Sahu and Krushna Chandra Sahu

Nandini Sahu (born 1973) is an Indian poet who writes in English.

Dr. Nandini Sahu is a poet and a creative writer of international repute, has been widely published in India, U.S.A, U.K and Pakistan. Dr. Sahu has delivered lectures on various subjects in India and abroad. She is a double gold medalist in English literature and also the award winner of All India Poetry Contest. She has accomplished her research for the Ph.D. in English literature under the guidance of Late Prof. Niranjan Mohanty who was the Professor of English in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. She is the author/editor of six books entitled The Other Voice, Recollection as Redemption, Post-Modernist Delegation to English Language Teaching, The Silence, The Post Colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation and Silver Poems on My Lips published from New Delhi. She is continuing her D.Litt. on Native American Literature. Her areas of research interest cover Indian English Literature, American Literature, English Language Teaching (ELT), Folklore and Culture Studies and Children’s Literature. She has designed and developed programmes on Folklore and Culture Studies and Children's Literature for IGNOU. Her poems, revealing the deeper truth and the untraced aspects behind life, have been highly appreciated.

Nandini Sahu was born in a sleepy town named G. Udayagiri in Orissa State. Nandini Sahu is currently an Associate professor of English at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. She is presently concentrating on writing novels.

In most of her poems, the personal, the social and the spiritual dimensions of creativity are automatically fused. Her poems explore the personal and the poetic identity of the poet and her personae. Most of her poems are monologues where the personae herself is the protagonist. Other than putting questions to the world around, she prefer to focus the torch of enquiry inward. In her poetry, aesthetics and morality do not resort to solutions for social evils and problems. She loves to make her poetics clear, through the design of perfection, if at all, that she has achieved through ages of acute pain and its manifestation through these poetic lines. She is a humanist to the core, and a rebel sometimes.

Views

Poet Jayanta Mahapatra says^{[verification needed]}, "Nandini Sahu’s poems build mostly on the themes people are always thinking about: love and death, and their various manifestations of fear, joy, pain and loneliness. Through these images of change is a poet’s life gently unfolded in her poems. More than anything else perhaps, Sahu has an eye and ear for exploring experience as verse. And there is no doubt that she is serious about this quest. It is a longing for identity for words that will indicate her own place in our world."

Selected works

Poetry Collections

• The Other Voice, 2004;
• The Silence, 2005;
• Silver Poems on My Lips, 2009;

Critical Books

• Recollection as Redemption, 2004;
• Post Modernist Delegations in English Language Teaching: The Quixotic Deluge, 2005;
• The Post Colonial Space: Writing the Self and The Nation, 2005;

Research Papers and Lectures

• Myth as Revelation: A Study in the Poetry of W.B.Yeats";
• Big Things & Small Things in Arundhati Roy’s The God Of Small Things";
• Feminism: Opposing the Binary Opposition";
• Rasa, Dhvani & Auchitya in the Indian & Western Poetics";
• Love Poems: The Historical Alternative---Poems of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das";
• Rethinking Modernity, Rereading T.S.Eliot";
• The Academics of Teaching-Literary Theory and Practice";
• The Wild Urge of a Man on Earth to Touch the Heaven---The Extra-Literary Vision of Mulk Raj Anand";
• The Nostalgic Note in their Flute: A Reading of Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri";
• Shakespearean Heroines: The Source of Energy and Vitality";
• The Chemistry Behind Creativity: A Reading of Sylvia Plath and Ted Huges";
• Poetry for Life’s Sake: Voice of Judith Wright";
• The Emerging Innovations in Technology and Pedagogy";
• The Concept of Love in Shakespearean Sonnets: A Study";
• Religious Harmony and Political Cosmos: the Voice of T. S. Eliot";
• Folk and Tribal Culture of Orissa: Religiosity, Historicity and Oral Traditions";
• The Position of Women in Oriya Literature";
• Two Dispossessed Habitats: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake";
• Translation as Power";
• Words and Silences in the Poetry of Niranjan Mohanty";
• The Cultural Designation of Feminism: Theory and Praxis;
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet and the Priest: A Study of The Windhover";
• Double Colonization for the Marginalized Children A Literary Delineation, Surviving Against Odds: the marginalized in a globalizing world";
• Nationalism through Patriotic Books";
• Kaleidoscope of the Indian Society-The Voice of Indo-Anglican Women Poets";
• Role of Literature in Abolishing International Terrorism";
• Capacity Building through Communicative Skills in Open Distance Learning";
• Print Media and the Role of Academia in ODL";
• Globalization and Cross-cultural Communication: the Role of Liberal Education";
• The Art and Science of Writing Children’s Literature";
• Indian Poetry in English: Recent Trends";
• Winds of Change: The Voice of Judith Wright and Kamala Das";
• Documentation and Preservation of Culture";
• Gopinath Mohanty’s ‘Paraja’: A Study of the Folk Culture of Orissa";
• Translation—to Bring Home the Culture".

Blog

All the readers can read some of her works on varied issues and topics from this blog-post.

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Name	Sahu, Nandini
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Date of birth	1973
Place of birth	G. Udayagiri
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