Shubhra Saxena

Shubhra Saxena is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, a writer and an inveterate student of human nature, with a long-standing curiosity about what makes us who we are. 

A graduate of IIT Roorkee, she secured All India Rank 1 in the Civil Services Examination before embarking on a career in public service that now spans more than fifteen years. 

Her work has brought her into contact with people from vastly different walks of life—each carrying their own ambitions and doubts, struggles and sorrows, and their own ways of finding strength. These encounters have only deepened a curiosity she has carried since childhood—who we are, why we’re here, and what’s the point of it all. 

Beyond her work, Shubhra enjoys reading, writing, travel and the kind of conversations that let her borrow another person’s perspective. She believes in questioning what she has been told, having the humility to change her mind and holding on to empathy in a world that can make it difficult to keep it. 

It Matters A Lot grew out of years spent watching, questioning, living and, now and then, unlearning. 

For Shubhra, writing has never been about arriving at answers. It has been about asking the kind of questions that make us look at our own lives a little differently.