Nidhi Narwal: Every Story Carries A Piece of Me [Poet & Storyteller, 1M+ Followers, India]

Nidhi Narwal Interview

Nidhi Narwal writes not to escape life, but to make sense of it. Through poetry, memory, and reflection, she reveals how writing became both her sanctuary and her way of finishing unfinished sentences.

Q. When you write as a character or a poem's speaker, how do you keep your own personality separate from theirs? Do you ever worry about losing your own voice in the voices you create?

To be honest, I don’t consciously try to separate my voice from the characters I write. If anything, I like leaving a fragment of myself in each of them. They become a way of expressing things I wanted to say in a particular moment but couldn’t.

That’s why I’m never worried about losing my voice as a writer. Every story I write carries a piece of it. Even when the characters are fictional, somewhere in their silences, fears, longing, or the way they see the world, there is a small trace of my own life.

Q. As a writer, how do you protect your peace when you absorb and feel everything so deeply?

Writing isn’t merely a profession or a pastime I return to when the world falls quiet. It is the lens through which I understand existence—the way I untangle life’s chaos and shape it into meaning.

Every day, thoughts, fragmented memories, and unspoken emotions collide inside my mind. Left alone, they become noise. But the moment my fingers find the keyboard or pen meets paper, that internal storm begins to settle. Creation becomes a form of meditation—a sanctuary where the overwhelming becomes manageable.

I don’t simply choose to write; I am compelled to. To remove writing from my life would feel like restricting the air in my lungs. I write as instinctively, as naturally, and as necessarily as I breathe.

Q. When you recall a past event, does your brain preserve the objective facts, or does it restructure the memory into a symbolic narrative over time?

I think time is never a passive observer—it is a relentless editor, quietly rewriting the manuscript of our minds. In the middle of a storm, we are simply trying to survive, holding onto raw and jagged fragments, too close to the canvas to see the painting.

Distance performs its own quiet magic. The sharp edges soften, and the panicked question of “What happened?” gradually matures into the wiser question, “What did it teach me?”

Q. Has writing stories or poems ever allowed you to retroactively heal or rewrite a personal narrative of trauma, failure, or heartbreak?

Thousands of times.

We carry the ghosts of conversations we never had and the endings we wish life had written differently. Entire universes of “what ifs” live quietly within us.

For me, the only way to release them is to give those phantom possibilities a home on paper—to map the alternate realities that never stood a chance in the waking world. There is something deeply grounding about knowing that somewhere, even if only in the fibres of a notebook or the glow of a screen, those moments exist.

Writing isn’t about changing the past. It is an act of closure. It is my way of looking at a broken thread and saying, “At least, right here, my heart got to finish the sentence.”

Q. What is the one book that left you feeling so deeply altered that you remember exactly where you were and why?

It has to be The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. I don’t think there’s a single person in my life I haven’t recommended this book to.

I still remember reading it for the first time. Fifteen minutes later—the entire book is only about a fifteen-minute read—I felt like someone had quietly stepped inside my skin and whispered exactly what I needed to hear.

I think that’s because the book is so simple. Your brain doesn’t have to spend any energy translating its words before your heart understands them. They simply arrive.

Charlie Mackesy describes it as a book for both an eight-year-old and an eighty-year-old. I honestly don’t think I could describe it any better than that.

Wherever you are, pick it up. It’s for you.

Bio

Nidhi Narwal is a talented Delhi-based performer who began her poetry career from platform (The Social House). Her videos on The Social House’s YouTube channel have received millions of views.

She is a storyteller known for weaving emotion, reflection, and lived experience into her narratives. Through spoken word and performance, she explores themes of love, identity, and everyday life with warmth and quiet intensity.

She is well-known for her stunning appearance, endearing smile, and appealing demeanour. She has a large fan base in India and is one of the most popular girls on social media. Her poems and storytelling have made her famous.Participation in art is frequently the most effective source of catharsis. Poetry, in particular, is a spoken art form with advantages for both the poet and the readers/listeners.

She has a sizable fan base across all social media platforms, including Instagram, Tik Tok, and her YouTube channel. Nidhi Narwal’s poetic video, Usey Pasand Hai, became viral on YouTube.

She is one of India’s most popular poets, and her lyrics tend to strike a chord deep within the hearts of young people. She has left an indelible imprint on many sensitive minds in India with her words and her deft writing style.

ABP News welcomed Narwal to speak about poetry on Women’s Day.

Here are some of her best poems: Mujhe Adhoora Rahne Do, Zindagi Sunn!, Main Aisi Nahi Thi, Koi Toh Ho, Usey Pasand Hai, Kabr Se Bheji Sada

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Interviewed by- Muskan Verma