“The human experience and it’s correlation to nature is one of the most inspiring things in the world.

These are relatable to her readers and their cathartic nature is like a soothing balm for aching hearts. So what is it about her poetry that has captured the imagination of thousands of people, especially, in this age of reduced attention spans and instant gratification? Keeping larger forces such as the universe, stars, far-away galaxies as her inspiration, Gill works themes of anxiety, loneliness and heartbreak into her poems. It made me recognise that I needed to improve my writing and how important the constant evolution of a writer truly is,” says 30-year-old Gill. I can honestly say that all those rejections were excellent for my spirit and my soul. “I turned the rejections into fuel to better my writing. Her first manuscript was rejected by 137 publishers. (Hachette India)īut it wasn’t an easy ride. Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, fire and beauty is a collection of inspiring poetry.

Today, she’s a published author with three titles under her belt her latest being Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty, which released in September. In 2015, UK-based Gill started uploading her poems on Instagram (nikita_gill), a medium that had just started to get people curious about it. Perhaps, it is this desire to connect beyond physical limitations that kept Gill hooked to writing and has made her an Instagram star she has an army of 2.5 million followers. Author Nikita Gill has over 2.5 lakh followers on Instagram, where she uploads her works regularly.(Hachette India) “It was an incredible feeling, to give a story to people you do not know, and to know that they may take something away from it,” she says. It was an article about her grandfather as a young man in Kashmir. The first time Nikita Gill realised that she loved writing was when she was 12 and had just published her first piece in a local newspaper in India.

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