Dr. Vandana Sharma is a writer, literary critic, and retired professor whose work spans memoir, short fiction, and scholarly criticism — united by a lifelong passion for the literature of India and Britain.
She holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-Indian literature from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, and has spent more than thirty years immersed in the study and teaching of English literature at university level. Her academic career saw her lead departments, mentor students, and contribute original scholarship to the field of Indo-Anglian studies.
We are all nomads, gradually moving beyond our given identity in a ceaseless journey of self-revelation.
As a teacher, Dr. Sharma was known for the clarity of her insights and her ability to make dense critical theory accessible and alive. As a writer, she brings that same quality of attention to her creative work — whether crafting a memoir chapter, a short story, or an academic essay.
Her scholarly specialisations include Victorian literature, Shakespeare, American modernism, Anglo-Indian literature, and Indian writing in English. These varied influences are visible throughout her creative work, which moves between the analytical and the lyrical with rare ease.
Her most recent book, Veiled Horizons: A Memoir, represents a new chapter — an intimate turn toward the personal, in which she traces her own journey of becoming with the same scrutiny she has long brought to the works of others. Her short fiction collection Threads of Longings, Shadows of Loss gathers five stories inspired by real lives in late 20th-century India.