About Me — Anangsha Alammyan

Writer, book lover, civil engineer, YouTuber, aspiring talk show host — not always all of them. Not always in order.

Anangsha Alammyan
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9 min readJan 17, 2021

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Hi there!

I’m Ana. I’m 28 years old and was born in a small town called Jorhat in Assam — a hilly Indian state nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. English is my fourth language, but somehow the love for the language is rooted deep in my heart.

When I was young, my friends had dreams of becoming astronauts, movie stars, or pilots. I always wanted to be a writer.

There wasn’t even a single doubt in my head. It was my one true love.

I wrote my first poem when I was only four-years-old. When I was ten, my poems and stories won national-level competitions in children’s magazines. At fifteen, my essay won the first prize in a competition organized by India’s central bank responsible for regulating the country’s currency. My parents always encouraged my writing habit and supported me further by taking me on regular trips to local bookstores.

I started writing online in 2014 on a website called Quora. As a college student, I was terrified of the platform because so many world-class experts wrote frequently on it. But, I stuck on, and in 2016, I became one of the Top Writers…

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