Shantanu Gupta

Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author, and right wing political analyst. He is also the communication advisor to Baba Ramdev and alumni ambassador of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, (United Kingdom) in India. In addition to India’s Football Dream Shantanu's recent work as an author has been about Uttar Pradesh and its government. His book The Monk Who Became Chief Minister is the biography of current Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister - Yogi Adityanath did incredibly well. Shantanu was born 7 February 1979 in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and raised in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, where his father worked in PSU – Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL). He did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and has an engineering degree from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. He did his Management education from XLRI, Jamshedpur and worked as a consultant for many years in India and abroad. To enrich his knowledge in the social & political themes, in 2008 he went to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, to do his Masters in Governance and Development. The university earlier in 2015 was ranked as number 1, for development studies by the QS World University Rankings. Shantanu started his career with a CAD/CAM software company in Hyderabad, names Intergraph and over years worked for different organizations like Quark, Geometric Software, Mercedes Benz, Amdocs and Wipro.[13] Later he left corporate life and started his social sector career with Naandi Foundation. Under Naandi, he led large-scale remedial education interventions in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra & New Delhi. He worked with UNICEF too for its Integrated District Approach (IDA) project in the hinterlands of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh. Consequently, he became the part of Centre for Civil Society (CCS), the only think tank of India in global top 100 ranking. Other than work his 2 children are his biggest passion in life.

Shantanu Gupta



Books

1) INDIA’S FOOTBALL DREAM
Nikhil Sharma

Nikhil Sharma is the author of India’s Football Dream. Nikhil also is the Founder CEO of zlait Sports Management, a New Delhi based sports management company. Nikhil has previously been Director of I-League club Shillong Lajong FC and was also an inception team member of Guwahati franchise of Indian Super League.

Nikhil is passionate about sports, persistent about the sustainability & development of sports in an Indian context with a global approach.

Sports, Business & Branding are 3 words that excite him most. He studied at Pune’s Vidya Bhavan & Loyola Junior College. Educated to be an Engineer with a degree from BVCOE, Pune, trained to be a marketeer at MICA, Ahmedabad & certified to be a Football Coach having done various courses. He loves ‘Brands in Sports’ and always is on a lookout to understand more and more about the Professional Athlete. Nikhil’s company represents some of the most talented young Indian Football players.

He has played competitive Football & Table Tennis, amongst a host of other sports through school & college.

He has worked for over 11 years through various industry verticals like it IT, FMCG, Consulting, Media & Retail before coming home to Sports. He has been a go to man at most organisations, where he has loved turning things around. For the good that is! Failed many a times too, which he deems has been a bigger and better experience than being successful. Huge believer in being the dumbest guy in the team room, his effort is always to put together the most skilled & intelligent teams together. Be it on the Football pitch or the front office. Extremely bullish by nature and I always like to take the unconventional approach. Love Hindi film music and adores his daughter Suhaani.

Nikhil Sharma



Books

1) INDIA’S FOOTBALL DREAM
Veena S Rao

Veena S Rao is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service of the 1972 batch, Karnataka Cadre, with a distinguished career in Karnataka and Government of India. She retired as Secretary to Government of India, Ministry for the Development of the North Eastern Region. She is a post-graduate in Political Science from the University of Jammu and Kashmir, and in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK. Before joining the IAS, she taught Political Science in Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

She is an expert on development issues and governance, particularly malnutrition, and writes extensively on the subject in national and international publications, including British Medical Journal. She is presently leading the Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission, and with the support of the World Bank/Japan Social Development Fund, she has just completed piloting a unique inter-generational, inter-sectoral strategy, advocated by her, to combat malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency in two of the most backward Blocks in Karnataka, Devadurga in Raichur District and Chincholli in Kalaburgi District, with very successful results. Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency among the inter-generational target groups, namely children, adolescent girls, and women has reduced appreciably. Ms Veena Rao is presently engaged with the Government of Karnataka in replicating this strategy in the most chronic malnutrition areas of Karnataka.

Veena Rao works closely with the Government of Karnataka, the World Bank, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Her pioneering work in addressing India's malnutrition can be seen in

www.karnutmission.org

Her first work of fiction, ‘Charlotte’s End’ inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca” was published in 2016.

"The Tale of Quarles, the Prince who Fails", a play written by her in Shakespearean verse about the sad Charles Diana marriage, has been staged very successfully by Pierrot’s Troupe, led by Dr Sayeed Alam.

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Books

1) CHARLOTTE’S END
2) THE ASURAS OF ANTARIKSH
Arunendra Nath Verma

Arunendra Nath Verma enjoys adding the spice of variety to make life delightfully savoury. A science student initially, he switched over to humanities for graduation. Then he changed course in 1961 to join the National Defence Academy and got commissioned in the Flying Navigator Branch of Indian Air Force in 1965. His interest in diverse fields later led to an MBA degree from Madras University besides a law degree from Delhi University. Notwithstanding an enviable track record of flying four Presidents and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for almost nine years in the VIP Squadron, and postgraduating in Defence studies from the Defence Services Staff College, he chose to hang his flying boots prematurely when the entrepreneurial bug bit him. In 1987 he set up an industrial unit at Noida to which he added two more in the next ten years. All this without any prior experience or family background. And yet he chose to prove himself in a totally tangential field by disposing of his thriving business in 2014 and settled down to satisfy his creative urge as a writer.

Within an year his first English novel, The Loophole, was published by Vitasta Publishing . To this were added five more books within next six years dedicated to writing. His short stories, satires, travelogues, middles and articles on a wide variety of subjects regularly appear in a large number of reputed magazines and national newspapers. What is really intriguing is his prowess to write both in English and Hindi. Vitasta published his short story collection “ Echoes From The Sky: Tales from the Air Force” in 2019. His Hindi books published by reputed publishers include a novel, two short story collections and a travelogue. The seventh one, a collection of satirical short stories is under publication.

The unusual variety in his writing comes from writing in both English and Hindi languages and his wide experience in diverse fields like aviation, the Armed Forces, industry and the world of letters as much as from his wide and varied interests that range from traveling, golfing, singing and attending musical concerts to watching movies and partying. He is a man who in the platinum year of his life is intent on living it up to the hilt. A born extrovert, he would love to establish close dialogue with his readers.

He is quite active on social media



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Books

1) ECHOES FROM THE SKY - TALES FROM THE AIR FORCE

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