Yatendra Chandra
Poet & Novelist

Yatendra Chandra

Four literary universes — in Hindi poetry and English fiction — about love, duty, memory, and the courage to choose oneself.

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About

A quiet voice, writing slowly, listening longer.

Yatendra Chandra writes at the soft edges of memory, devotion, and the inner weather of a young country — moving between Hindi poetry and English literary fiction, always at the difficult intersection of love, responsibility and choice.

He began at fifteen, in the margins of school notebooks. His poetic universe, आत्म-मिलन – आत्म-विरह, was composed slowly across four winters and three monsoons. His fiction returns again and again to women standing at the edge of a choice.

He lives in Bombay, keeps a journal in pencil, and reads aloud only at night.

The Works

Four universes, one voice.

आत्म-मिलन – आत्म-विरह slipcase
Poetic Universe · Ten Books

आत्म-मिलन – आत्म-विरह

Solitude Ink

A finite literary universe — ten poetic journeys through love, memory, separation and the dissolving of the self. Hand-numbered to 2,000 sets, pressed once.

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Timeless Songs of Hindi Cinema collector's chest
Heritage Anthology · Six Volumes

Timeless Songs of Hindi Cinema

A Heritage Anthology

A classified archive of the songs, voices, lyricists and composers who shaped Hindi film music — preserved as literature, presented as a museum, limited to 2,000 copies.

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Love in the Shape of Life A Woman in the Middle of Everything A Lady on Her Own Terms
Literary Fiction · Three Novels

Stories of Love, Choice & Consequence

Love in the Shape of Life · A Woman in the Middle of Everything · A Lady on Her Own Terms

Three women, three choices — a contemporary collection about relationships, responsibility, and the courage to choose oneself.

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The Coming of Age of a Woman — Part I The Coming of Age of a Woman — Part II
Literary Fiction · Two Parts

The Coming of Age of a Woman

Part I: Two Boxes · Part II: The Wrong War

Told across thirty-seven months, a woman's slow negotiation between duty and self-discovery. Adult contemporary literary fiction.

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In His Words

Read aloud, slowly.

तुम मेरी कविता नहीं,
तुम वह ख़ामोशी हो
जिसमें कविता जन्म लेती है।

You are not my poem. You are the silence in which a poem becomes possible.

From मानसी · Manasi, आत्म-मिलन – आत्म-विरह

“Some choices do not break the heart. They redefine it.”

From A Woman in the Middle of Everything

“The songs were never only songs. They were how we learned to love, to remember, and to forgive.”

From the Curator's Letter, Timeless Songs of Hindi Cinema

“She saw him standing there long before he could see her... Their eyes met for a little more than a second. He smiled. She tried to.”

From the closing chapter, The Coming of Age of a Woman