Nainital
Literature
Festival

Devika Arora is a writer, cultural commentator, and communication design graduate educated in Delhi and New York. She founded her first marketing company at 17 and exited it a decade later, building and operating across India, Paris, Dubai, and New York. Her writing explores power, gender, cities, labour, and identity in the age of visibility, with recent work published in Open Magazine, Mid-Day, and The Allen Analysis. Drawing from lived experience across global creative economies, Devika examines how women navigate ambition, control, reinvention, and public perception. She is currently based between India and the U.S., working at the intersection of culture, media, and emerging technologies.