Naheed Akhtar is a lecturer, writer and poet based in the city of Hyderabad. She is a bibliophile and loves reading Philosophy, History, Psychology, Literature, and its glossary. She loves nature. With her fine imagination of being a wanderer, a lost, who longs and lingers for the unseen and remote for her own reasons. She has three poetry collections: ‘Phantasms of My Heart’, ‘The Earth's Love’ and ‘The Morphine’.
Here’s a dark poem about love, loss and fear by Naheed – exclusively for Different Truths. Seems, an absolute Tug of war is embracing defeat; Weight of the desire...
An evocative poem by Naheed – exclusively for Different Truths. Can I utter what my heart does? Lub-dub, lub-dub, the palpation sounds; Noising like silent rocks sputter On the...
A voyage within, by Naheed, about despair, darkness, and a sliver of hope, exclusively for Different Truths. Like a bird which has lost Her way; in the night’s blind...
An evocative protest poem, by Naheed, exclusively for Different Truths. The assassination of the heart was obvious And terrible, by the scholars so called Who knew only, the Grammar...