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Nandita Karambelkar

Nandita Karambelkar lives in Charleston, South Carolina. She attends the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, studying evocative writing. She has won a gold medal in poetry for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Fall 2012

Rangoli

By Nandita Karambelkar

Runner-Up 2012 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   If it weren't for the partition of unknown miles, my mother's mother might be kissing her now in the margin […]

Past Recipients of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

weekend-readsRangoli

By Nandita Karambelkar

If it weren’t for the partition of unknown miles, my mother’s
mother might be kissing her now in the margin of her forehead

and hairline. She wonders: who gave us the notion of growing
up? Her heart lies mapped on her maiden front yard in India