Food for Thought

The author is a proud daughter, sister, wife, and mother, serving as an Assistant Professor of English at Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi. 

Born on 28th October 1974, in Kolkata, in a Marwari family, Alka Jain graduated from Loreto College, Kolkata. Post-marriage, she settled in Jhansi and continued her academic journey. She has a Doctorate in English from MATS University, centered around feminine sensibility in the Indian context, and has published over twenty research papers and two books. Fond of composing poems in Hindi, English, and Marwari and a firm believer in the power of literature as a vehicle of transformation and change, she has started a YouTube Channel to sensitize the youth on socio-cultural and environmental issues through self-composed poems. She believes in the power of storytelling for social impact and has penned several articles on women's issues, social prejudices, unity and diversity, and ecological and environmental conservation.

She has published around 40 opinion articles and essays in English and Hindi in several newspapers of national repute, like The Hindu, The Free Press Journal, Dainik Jagaran, Krishi Jagaran, and the like. Her articles have also been published in the National Book Trust, Ministry of Education publications.