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Ashwini Ahuja- Freelance Writer & Columnist
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Ashwini Ahuja
Brief Biography
Ashwini Ahuja is a famous writer, columnist and novelist of India. Presently, he contributes to almost a dozen magazines and publications across country and abroad. So far, he has penned down five books both in English and Hindi. He was born in Fazilka, a tiny city, close by Indo-Pak border.
After completed his M. Phil at Punjab University, Chandigarh, he joined as a part time lecturer at DAV College, Malout. Later, he joined DAV College Abohar and Gopi Chand Arya Mahila College, Abohar. He has the keen interest for writing not only for in the area of fiction but the other various subjects also which took him to Delhi where he joined Dainak Jagran at Noida office as a sub editor.
Being a single son of the family, his responsibilities towards family brought him back to his native city just after a year to look after his ailing mother. He then joined in M. R College, Fazilka as a part time Hindi lecturer. Part time job in college was not prolific. He discarded it after two years and began to struggle for permanent teaching job in the nearby area. In the year of 1995, he got a permanent job as a school lecturer and was posted at nearby city Abohar.
Meanwhile, he continued writing on various subjects viz. youth, career, fashion, politics, fiction, lifestyle, current affairs, religion, trend, society etc. Now, he is working as lecturer in his city Fazilka. He started his career as a Hindi writer but after three books get published, he switched over to English writing as he foresaw both fame and fortune along with vast readership in English writing. Now, he writes preferably in English despite, he teaches Hindi to his students.
Academic Qualification:
MA (English, Hindi) M. Ed, M. Phil. He is the alumni of S. D. Senior Secondary School, Fazilka, DAV College, Abohar & Punjab University campus, Chandigarh. At Abohar, he topped in MA Hindi examination. He earned his post graduation in English from Bikaner University, Bikaner. Also, he earned the degrees of honour both in Hindi and Punjabi from Punjabi University, Patiala. At Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, he acted in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth and earned accolade in press as an artist apart from an author.
Books: (English)
Sorry Sir
(Fiction) is signed up with a publisher at Bikaner and will hit the stalls in 2009.
Clamour (Novel)
is appearing in the Verdict , a Mumbai based weekly tabloid in weekly serials. His more than 500 articles/stories have been found place in different magazines.
Books: (Hindi)
Ek Chuha Mara Hua (fiction)
Kalam Ki Talaash Mein (Poetry)
Terrorist (fiction) 
Ashwini Ahuja’s work regularly finds place in these publications
1 Tintota (Switzerland based monthly magazine)
2 Chowk (South Asian Online magazine)
3 Diverse Parent (UK based Magazine)
4 The Verdict( Mumbai based weekly tabloid)
5 Supremacy (Mumbai based monthly magazine)
6 Glittering India (Mumbai based monthly magazine)
7 The Observer of Management Education (Mumbai based magazine)
8 Greater Kashmir(Srinagar based daily newspaper)
9 The Daily Etalaat(Srinagar based daily newspaper)
10 Rock Pebbles (Orissa based quarterly magazine)
11 Indo- Asian Literature (Delhi based half yearly magazine)
12 Meri News ( Guragaon based online magazine)
13 My News in (Bhopal based online news magazine)
14 Headlines India (Delhi online news site)
15 American Chronicle (USA based online magazine)
16 Boloji (online, San Jose, USA based magazine)
17 Universal Journal (USA based magazine)
18 Orchard Press Mystery (UK based publication)
19 Oh My News International (Korean based online publication)
20 Writers Voice (Online American site)
21 Hum NRI (A site run by Indian NRIs)
22 Literary India (Online site)
23 Ajit Samachar (A Hindi daily from Jalandhar)
25 Partap Kesri (A Hindi daily from Sriganganagar)
26 Sarhad Kesri ( A Hindi daily from Fazilka)
27 India Varta (Delhi based online site)
28 Punjab Sourabh (Patiala based Hindi monthly magazine)
29 Jagriti (Chandigarh based Hindi monthly magazine)30 The Shadow (Jammu based daily newspaper)
Accolades
1 Luxmi Narayan Dubey Award
2 Award from
Language Department Punjab
3 Pt. Shanker Prasad Tripathi Award
The last word
Apart from writing, he earned several awards at college and university level for his participation in different activities viz. debate, declamation & poetical recitation etc. He donated his rare blood group O-negative to dozens needy persons and local societies Manav Kalyan Sabha & Social Welfare society conferred him awards for his humanitarian cause.
Email:
ashwiniahujaonline@gmail.com
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