A poem about the dilemma and the despair of our generation coping with aging parents and kids flying the nest.
Author Archives: Nidhi Thakur
Nidhi Thakur, Ph.D. is a bilingual writer. She writes poetry, fiction, and commentary (in Hindi-Urdu ~Hindustani and in English) on culture, climate, and chaos. Her notable works include, besides others, spoken poetry-in India’s premier Jaipur Literature Festival, theQuint.com, ‘Life in Quarantine’ Project (Stanford University), Sunday Song and Story Swap (Columbia University), and published pieces in anthologies (In Full Color, Through The Looking Glass, American Kahani and When Women Speak). She can be found on Instagram and youtube as ‘heartversesmind’. You can reach her at thakur.nidhi@gmail.com