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.