PROFILE

Name: Dhrijyoti

Born: Guwahati, 1987.

Educated: Don Bosco, Guwahati; Shrimanta Shankar Academy, Guwahati; Zakir Hussain College, Delhi.

Home: Guwahati

Pursuing Graduation with English(Hon.) from Delhi University,

living presently in Delhi.

Loves traveling and observing, left Engg. to study literature after two years of stifling.

Likes to play cricket, but doesn’t love watching it for long.

Loves swimming.

Attended Osian’s largest literary festival in Asia, the Jaipur literary festival, met with and encouraged by authors of the stature of Hari Kunzru, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Arupa Patangia Kalita, Vikram Seth, etc.

Inspired by poets as Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt, Maya Angelou, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams…

Working for an independent magazine, LITLANE presently in Delhi.