With haunting honesty and quiet defiance, Lakshmi Nair explores what it means to love deeply — and to survive that love. Across five parts, her verses trace a path from innocence to intimacy, through loss, longing, and the quiet revolution of self-rediscovery. Each poem is a tender rebellion — against forgetting, against silence, against erasure. Elskling is an ode to girlhood, grief, and the art of choosing yourself, again and again.