Ankit Raj Ojha
Ankit Raj Ojha has been living between lives since he left his hometown in Bihar, India. A former software engineer and rock band frontman, he has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee and is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana.
About Ankit Raj Ojha
Ankit Raj Ojha has been living between lives since he left his hometown in Bihar, India. A former software engineer and rock band frontman, he has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee and is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana. Winner of the Briefly Think Essay Prize 2023 and finalist in the Sundress 2023 Broadside Contest, Ankit has poetry, short fiction, essay and reviews published in Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, The Honest Ulsterman, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Outlook India, Stanchion, BULL, The Broadkill Review, etc. His research articles on myths, archetypes, postmodern fiction and posthumanism appear in Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press and Vernon Press volumes. Ankit edits The Hooghly Review, is guest editor at Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (Bingöl University, Türkiye), and is a consulting editor with five Routledge journals. Books: Pinpricks (Hawakal, 2022), Wives (Hawakal, 2023). X: @ankit_raj01, Instagram: @ankitrajojha1
Books by Ankit Raj Ojha
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Sonam Gupta Is a Cheater — fiction humor
Be sure to click on the link at the very end...
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The Boys Who Lived — fiction life
Vengeance is the only cure for withholding the written word...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Lover — poem unrhymed
"...works-in-progress lure me..."
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Reflections Upon Visiting the Old Cemetery in Roorkee — poem unrhymed
"...buried in an alien land, doomed for the rest of eternity..."
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On Writing — poem unrhymed
"...how can I know a hundred heartaches..."
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On Reading — poem unrhymed
Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor and former software engineer from Chapra, Bihar, India. He teaches English at Government College Gharaunda, Karnal and is a PhD candidate at IIT Roorkee.
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Falling in Love — poem unrhymed
Short but universal...