Vidur Jyoti, a surgeon by training, took to writing at an early stage during his student career and later on diversified into writing short essays and verse which saw him being guided to haiku and related genre. He has a keen interest in philosophy and culture. He regards his professional activities as an opportunity for an insight into life almost a meditational experience to be shared with everyone in verse and prose. His haiku, tanka and other writings appear in some anthologies published from India and abroad.f