Education

M.A. English

Profile

Drishti Rakhra is a reader, writer, and teacher based in Bengaluru, India. She taught English and Journalism at St Joseph’s University for seven years, before joining LURU Magazine as senior editor. She was a finalist for the 2025 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship, and publishes regularly at Deccan Herald. Previously, she has also written for HuffPost India, Agents of Ishq, The Ladies Finger, amongst others.

Research

Queer theory, culture studies, gender studies, journalism, creative writing

Publication

Rakhra, Drishti. The algorithms of real and fake. Deccan Herald, 5 April 2026.

Rakhra, Drishti. Romancing Latin Dance. Deccan Herald, 28 February 2026.

Rakhra, Drishti. AI addiction, assignments, anxiety: ChatGPT and today’s classrooms. Deccan Herald, 23 August 2025.

Rakhra, Drishti. The Stories of Bert and Other Expat Restauranters. Deccan Herald, 24 May 2025.

Rakhra, Drishti. Same-sex, Together, Unmarried. Deccan Herald, 1 March 2025.

Rakhra, Drishti. I Gave Up Modelling and Became a Monk. Deccan Herald, 18 Jan 2025.

Rakhra, Drishti. How I Built a Social Life Through Gaming. Deccan Herald, 5 Oct 2024.

Rakhra, Drishti. Excursions of an amateur birder. Deccan Herald, 7 Sep 2024.

Rakhra, Drishti. Looking Outside, Seeing Inside. In Plainspeak, 20 Sep. 2023.

Rakhra, Drishti. What Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Taught Me About Estrangement and Loneliness. HuffPost, 17 Oct. 2020.