Proyashi Barua

Founder & Director, Assam LitArt Fest

A distinction holder in her post graduate mass communications degree (from Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications) Proyashi has worked in the media and communications industry of Delhi for 17 years. Her journalism career spanned The Times of India, Hindustan Times and an international foreign trade magazine where she had served in the capacity of an assistant editor. At TOI & HT she has contributed to special editorial projects too and represented India at international assignments. She has also worked in the corporate communications and public relations industry and some of her appointments include HCL Technologies (where she was employed as a manager of communications) and IPAN Public Relations and Public Affairs.
With a bachelor’s degree in English literature, Proyashi loves to write and is adept at all genres of writing. The Mystic Sinners published by Readomania in October 2019 is her debut novel. Proyashi has delivered a talk on the importance of reviving our Shakta cults through contemporary works of fiction at the prestigious Mystic Kalinga Literature Festival that was held at Bhubaneswar in 2020. She has also been an online panelist at the 2020 edition of the prestigious Pune International Literary Festival and contributed short stories in a few anthologies. Now Proyashi is based in her hometown Guwahati and is a full time author. She writes columns for newspapers and websites and works on content and editorial projects in a freelance capacity. She is the primary editorial lead from the north eastern states for a website called The Indian Tribal.