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Linda Ashok

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Linda Ashok (Born 22 February 1987) is an Indian poet and Journalist based in Kolkata, India. Her first book of free verse, Whorelight, was named the best book of 2017 "Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017"[1] by Sudeep Sen. Whorelight received critical acclaim in World Literature Today. In 2017, she was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.[2]

Early Life and Education

Linda Ashok
Born22 February 1987 (age 35)
Kolkata, India
EducationEnglish Honours, Rabindra Bharati University, West Bengal
Alma materRabindra Bharati University, West Bengal
OccupationPoet and Journalist
OrganizationFounding-Journalist of StartuptoEnterprise.com
Notable work
Whorelight, ISBN: 9788193423080

Waiting for the Helicopter, ISBN: 9788194665168

Best Indian Poetry 2018, ISBN: 9788193929506
WebsiteStartuptoEnterprise.com

Family

Linda Ashok was born in Kolkata, India, to a first-generation Hindu converted Christian family.]

Education

Linda graduated in English Honors from Rabindra Bharati University, West Bengal. There is no information about her pursuing higher studies.

Employment

Linda Ashok has worked with Fortune 100, 500s, and SMBs, namely IBM, ADP, Bank of America and Deloitte US-India. Currently, Linda Ashok is the Founding-Journalist of StartuptoEnterprise.com and an independent digital consultant.

Work

As a Corporate Professional

As a supply chain marketing professional, her works have been cited in several peer-reviewed supply chain journals, including International Academic Journals. As a digital tech consultant, her works appeared on eLearning Industry, Datafloq, DZone, and Crafts Resume.

As a Journalist

As per MuckRack, Linda Ashok is the Founding-Journalist of StartutoEnterprise.com. Her news coverage of global technology startups of social impact appears on StartuptoEnterprise.com.[3]

As a Poet

Linda Ashok's poems appeared in several online poetry journals, including Cultural Daily[4], Plume[5], The Common[6], Vinyl Poetry & Prose[7], Literary Hub[8], Scroll.in[9], Right-Hand Pointing[10], Poetry Kanto[11], Friend's Journal[12], Ethos Literary Journal[13], Mascara Literary Review[14], etc.

As a poet, she has appeared in several mainstream news media The Hindu[15], Firstpost[16]., Livemint[17], MidDay[18], The Times Of India[19], The New Indian Express[20], Asian Age[21], The Hindu Business Line[22], The Citizen[23], Millennium Post[24], Business Standard[25], among others.

Linda Ashok's poetry has been cited in many dissertations such as "Indian English Poetry; Current Flow And Destination (The Year 2000 Onward)[26] by Jagari Mukherjee, the Ph.D. thesis of Poet Alvin Pang, titled "Writing the Multiple: From Chapalang to Confluence[27]," and the Ph.D. thesis of Champa Chettri, titled “Poetry as History: A Pragmatic Study of North-East Poetry in English and in English Translation.”

As a Poetry Award Sponsor & Publisher

Linda Ashok instituted the RL Poetry Award, one of India's top four poetry awards active from 2012 to 2019[28]. The RL Poetry Award has been a stepping stone[29] in the careers of many Indian poets, including Tushar Jain, Rohan Chhetri, Rochelle Potkar and many others[30]. Honored as one of the top five and only woman-run poetry publication houses by Scroll.in, RLFPA Editions published the winning manuscripts of Shalim Hussain, Preeti Vangani, Barnali Ray Shukla, Meera Nair, Stephen Byrne, Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo, among others.[31][32]

Notable Work

Poetry Books

  • Whorelight, ISBN: 9788193423080[33][34]
  • Waiting for the Helicopter, ISBN: 9788194665168[35]
  • Best Indian Poetry 2018, ISBN: 9788193929506[36]

Poetry Anthologies

Controversy

Poet Linda Ashok is ambivalent about withdrawing her name from the anthology but claims she confronted Sen in an email about the instances when he made her feel uncomfortable in the past, and he replied with an apology.[37] “My own experience with Sen is not a case of sexual harassment but certainly very embarrassing and unpleasant,” said Ashok, the editor of RaedLeaf Foundation for Poetry and Allied Arts, a foundation that has been offering the annual RL Poetry Award since 2013. Ashok believes that this issue is not just about Sen and that many women in the poetry world have faced different forms of sexual harassment over the years. She claimed that many poets are legitimately afraid of talking about their experiences publicly because some of the editors and publishers are powerful and influential. “There is a fear of backlash. The poetry world is small and there are very few opportunities of publishing and recognition,” she said. Johari, Aarefa (8 March 2018). "Sexual harassment allegations against editor prompt poets to withdraw from Sahitya Akademi book."[38] Scroll.in.

References

  1. ↑ "Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017". The Asian Age. 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  2. ↑ "A hand on the meter of Hyderabad". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  3. ↑ Spotlight, Outlook. "Indian-English Poet Linda Ashok As A Tech Journalist On The State Of Being". Outlook India. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  4. ↑ "Linda Ashok: Three Poems - Cultural Daily". 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  5. ↑ Linda, Ashok (2016-10-24). "Linda Ashok: Letter from India: Worshiping the Stone Manasa". Plume. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  6. ↑ "October 2017 Poetry Feature". The Common. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  7. ↑ VinylEditors (2016-05-25). "Linda Ashok |". Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  8. ↑ "#Actual Asian Poets". Literary Hub. 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  9. ↑ Bahuguna, Urvashi. "Five newly published poets reveal new directions for Indian poetry in English". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  10. ↑ "Right Hand Pointing: Winter Haiku 2017". right-hand-pointing. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  11. ↑ "Linda Ashok | Poetry Kanto／ポエトリ関東". Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  12. ↑ "I Tell You No Jihad Can Change the Course of Rivers". Friends Journal. 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  13. ↑ Ashok, Linda. "Poems by Linda Ashok | Ethos Literary Journal (ELJ)". Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  14. ↑ "Linda Ashok". Mascara Literary Review. 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  15. ↑ Sripathi, Apoorva (2014-12-03). "'Every nanosecond is an experience'". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  16. ↑ "Listen: From Mihir Vatsa to Linda Ashok, six poets under 40 recite their poems on post-globalisation-Living News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  17. ↑ Ghoshal, Somak (2018-11-24). "Who's afraid of poetry?". mint. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  18. ↑ "Poetic justice is here". Mid-day. 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  19. ↑ "Playing with poetry - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  20. ↑ "City of Bards: Eminent poets who settled down in Hyderabad". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  21. ↑ "Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017". The Asian Age. 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  22. ↑ "2017: New poets, and many returning ones crowded the year". www.thehindubusinessline.com. 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  23. ↑ ghosh, chandrani. "Whorelight: The Prostitution of Light to Rescue Us From our Darkness". www.thecitizen.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  24. ↑ MPost (2021-04-24). "Imprint of cumulative changes". www.millenniumpost.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  25. ↑ Gupta, Uttaran Das (2020-06-19). "Little letters of love". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  26. ↑ Mukherjee, Jagari. "INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY; CURRENT FLOW AND DESTINATION (YEAR 2000 ONWARD". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  27. ↑ "Writing the multiple: from Chapalang to Confluence". researchrepository.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  28. ↑ Gupta, Kanishka. "Eye on the prize: This list of Indian literary awards for books in English is a long and varied one". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  29. ↑ "Poets translating Poets - Essays-Goethe-Institut". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  30. ↑ Gupta, Kanishka. "The flag-bearers of verse: How five independent presses publish poetry in India". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  31. ↑ Badhwar, Natasha (2019-08-02). "'Poetry will be turmeric caught in the cracks'". mint. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  32. ↑ "Preeti Vangani explores the endurance female body possess". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  33. ↑ "Whorelight and Dreams of the Sacred and Ephemeral: Two contrasting tales". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  34. ↑ Daruwalla, Keki N. (2018-09-15). "How to write a good review". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  35. ↑ Ashok, Linda (2020-10-09). Waiting for the Helicopter. Hawakal Publishers. ISBN 978-81-946651-6-8.
  36. ↑ "Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier". Mid-day. 2018-07-29. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  37. ↑ India, The Hans. "Poets Receive Royal Welcome at 'The Durbar'". The Hans India. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  38. ↑ Johari, Aarefa. "Sexual harassment allegations against editor prompt poets to withdraw from Sahitya Akademi book". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
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