“Writing these poems did ask for honesty that was complete and more courageous.” – Nomita Kapur (Author- Days of Recovery)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Nomita Kapur to talk about her latest poetry collection, Days of Recovery- Poems (Speaking Tiger, 2026).
Nomita Kapur is an author and poet based in New Delhi. An alumnus of Delhi School of Economics, she began her career in the corporate sector. Fascinated by human behaviour, she became a corporate trainer and thereafter a professor of Organizational Behaviour. Along with deepening her academic interests, she currently studies scriptures of Indian philosophy under the guidance of her spiritual teacher.
Nomita’s first published work, Drop by Drop, is a collection of essays reflecting her deep interest in human existence while melding eastern wisdom with modern-day life.
Having taught and trained individuals across age groups, Nomita now shares her love for teaching through her writing—both prose and poetry—and her social media presence. She can be reached through her Instagram page: nomita_yagaliving
About the Book
When cancer brought Nomita Kapur’s ‘active days to a halt’, her universe shifted, without warning. Gradually, over months, she found her balance again, a different, deeper balance. From that pause—‘a deeply reflective space’ that helped her reclaim her life, and understand the true meaning of recovery—emerged the poems collected in this quietly remarkable book. In sharing her experience and the discoveries she made, she empowers us with this collection; for, in our different ways, we are all in recovery.
Team Kitaab: Your first book, Drop by Drop, explored human existence through the lens of Eastern wisdom. Days of Recovery feels more intimate and embodied. Do you see this collection as a continuation of the same philosophical inquiry, or did illness fundamentally change the questions you ask?
Nomita Kapur : Yes, while the philosophical thread is similar my voice and motivation are quite different.
Drop by Drop was an inquiry but Days of Recovery has really been about a lived experience in real time. The poems became the ground for digesting the answers of my earlier quest. Even though cancer was an experience not of my asking, yet it provided the context in which I was asked to recall, test and live all that I had been learning.
Perhaps the most significant difference between the two is that while in my earlier essays, I was exploring the general human condition by melding ancient and modern wisdom, the poems have been an emotional outpouring where the questions and the answers were personal and intimate.
