Dushyant, known as Dushyant or Dr. Dushyant, is an Indian fiction writer, poet, lyricist and screenwriter in Hindi and sometimes in his mother tongue Rajasthani too. His first collection of poems received an award from the Rajasthani Akademi, and his collection of Hindi poems, Prem Ka Anya, received the Ramkumar Ojha Award. He is a famous Lyricist of Bollywood, starting his career with Randeep Hooda starrer Laal Rang Directed by Syed Ahmed Afzal. Noted Hindi Author Uday Prakash has remarked his storytelling as 'Storytelling of Post Modern actualities' in the preface of Dushyant's debut collection of short stories July Ki Ek Raat published by Penguin Books, which was later among best books of the year 2013 list of BBC.
Early life and education
Dushyant was born and brought up in Northern Rajasthan, around the river Ghaggar and Gang canal, to Brijlal and Birmadevi. his paternal grand father was land revenue officer under Maharaja Ganga Singh of the princely state of Bikaner. He moved to Jaipur for higher studies. He did BA in History and studied Philosophy as well. He then did his Masters in Modern Indian history, followed by qualifying UGC-NET,. Which resulted into a Doctorate in History, supervised by Professor Pratibha Jain, Ex Head, Department of History, University of Rajasthan. His doctoral thesis was examined by Professor Dilbagh Singh of Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of specialization was Feminism/Gender Studies. His doctoral dissertation was published in 2012 by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi as Striyan: Parde se Prajatantra tak. He spent a few days at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune to understand the medium of cinema.
Career
Dushyant started his career with teaching History in a Post Graduate College, but shifted to Journalism very soon for the passion of writing. Working with well-known TV and print journalist Alok Tomar made him confident to pursue his passion of writing as a career. He joined the newspaper "Daily News" of the Rajasthan Patrika Group in 2007 after joining and leaving many jobs and subsequently became the head of the Sunday magazine of the newspaper, that prolonged for almost a decade. Dushyant was the Founder Editor of the literary magazineShabdkram when he was doctoral scholar in the university. His first collection of short stories, July Ki Ek Raat, was published in June 2013 by Penguin India. It consists 15 short stories, most of them are of small towns and very few from rural India. Critics remarked that he is a storyteller who depicts the changing India after Globlization with minute details.This book received critical acclaim as well as ennormpus love of readers. His novel 'Via Gurgaon', was released by Juggernaut Books in December 2017. It is a love story set in Jatland of Northern India. His latest book 'Raho Tum Nakshtra Ki Tarah' is a translation of Odia poems by Sahitya Akademi Award winner poetess Monalisa Jena, which is published by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi in Raza Pstakmala released in January, 2018 at Delhi World Book Fair. Dushyant has been invited to literature festivals like Youth Literary Festival of Sahitya Akademi the Jaipur Literature Festival and Kritya International Poetry Festival.
