AN APOLOGY LONG OVERDUE
What do we owe to the voices that were silenced, to the dreams buried beneath rubble, to the love that endured despite the weight of loss?
An Apology Long Overdue is a poetic reckoning, a confession, a tribute, and an act of solidarity. In these verses, Nikitha Ramanarayanan traces a reverse journey through life, moving from grief to the innocence of beginnings, confronting both personal and collective wounds.
This collection is an apology to the overlooked and the unheard, to the land that remembers and the bodies that bear witness. It carries the echoes of struggle, the weight of history, and the unyielding hope for justice. Each poem is a fragment of resistance, a quiet defiance against forgetting.
"This isn't just an apology; it is remembrance as resistance."
WE ARE ALL SCREWED
If youāve ever seen someone (you know the type) stare at a clump of hair in a bathroom drain like it personally betrayed civilization, you already understand this book.
That cocktail of horror, judgment, and mild existential panic? That is exactly how society reacts to women who refuse to lie flat - in their bodies, voices, ambition, anger, or desire. Apparently, anything that cannot be rinsed away becomes a crisis.
In one of its sharpest chapters, Nikitha Ramanarayanan transforms that soggy domestic inconvenience into a disturbingly accurate metaphor for womanhood, not because women are messy, but the world is deeply uncomfortable with what it canāt quietly dispose of. Itās absurd and unsettlingly accurate
This book moves through similar recognitions.It sits with what we have been trained to dismiss.It examines what we have normalised, defended, and simply learned to survive. Nothing here is dramatic for the sake of it, nor is it softened for comfort, just a steady, unflinching look at what we call ordinary, and the quiet cost of doing so.