Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap

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  • Name:
  • Aruni Kashyap
  • Born:
  • June 9, 1984

Aruni Kashyap Biography

Aruni Kashyap is an Indian writer of Assamese and English languages. ‘The House With a Thousand Stories’ (2013) is his masterpiece work that dealt with the social issues of human rights violations in Assam. This novel published most recently in 2013 was set in the background of 1990’s when hundreds of people in Northeast India were extra-judicially killed during an insurgency against Indian rule. With this single work, he is regarded as a strongly emerging young writer from the north-eastern part of India. ‘The House With a Thousand Stories’ was his debut published novel too. He is also a noted translator. ‘The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar’ is his English translation work originally authored by Assamese writer, Indira Goswami.

 

Kashyap was born in Guwahati on 9 June 1984. His childhood days were spent there. He studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Though he writes fiction, he is also known as a columnist for many publications who writes extensively on socio-political issues along with his opinions. His columns and articles regularly appear in The Guardian, UK, Open Democracy and Tehelka. Apart from articles, he also publishes poems regularly in magazines like Muse India, Postcolonial Text, The Daily Star etc. He writes essays, articles and short stories for Tehelka, The Assam Tribune, Sadin, Satsori, Dainik Janasadharan etc. Apart from these periodicals, he also publishes columns online and has received critics’ appreciation as a good author.

 

Currently he works as the Assistant Editor of Yaatra : The Journal of Assamese Literature and Culture. He published an excerpt of his novel about the secret-killings of Assam in the annual edition of Tehelka. In 2009, he won Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing.

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Updated: February 14, 2014

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