Jahnavi Barua is an Indian author from Assam. She is the author of Next Door, a collection of short stories set in Assam with insurgency as the background. Barua lives in Bangalore, and obtained her MBBS at Gauhati Medical College but does not practice medicine. She studied creative writing in the United Kingdom.
A Rebirth is not so much about parenting as it is about the unique bond between mother and child. Undertow is a novel about migration, exile and loneliness in a post-pandemic world.