Shantanu Gupta

Shantanu Gupta
Shantanu Gupta in 2017
Shantanu Gupta in 2017
Born (1979-02-07) 7 February 1979 (age 45)
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
OccupationAuthor, political analyst
LanguageEnglish, Hindi
NationalityIndian
EducationXLRI - Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur, University of Sussex
GenreNon-Fiction
Notable worksThe Monk Who Became Chief Minister, Bharatiya Janata Party - Past, Present & Future, India's Football Dreams, Uttar Pradesh - Vikas Ki Prateeksha Mein
SpouseSwetha Rao Duggu
ChildrenAbhiram, Nakshatra
Website
www.shantanugupta.in

Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author and political analyst.[1][2] He is also the founder of The Ramayana School.[3] Gupta has authored ten books including Bharatiya Janata Party: Past, Present and Future— Story of World's Largest Political Party[4] and The Monk Who Became Chief Minister which is biography of the 22nd and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh - Yogi Adityanath.[1][5] Gupta has written the sequel of Yogi Adityanath's biography The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh [6][7] and graphic novel on the same, Ajay to Yogi Adityanath.[8] Gupta is the first author to introduce a political comic in India for the first time voters for the 2024 general elections, titled, 101 Reasons Why I Will Vote for Modi.[9][10]

Early life and education

Shantanu Gupta was born on 7 February 1979 in Bareilly, a town in Uttar Pradesh and raised in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, where his father worked in the public sector company Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL). He did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and subsequently studied engineering degree at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. He thereafter studied management at XLRI, Jamshedpur and worked as a consultant for many years in India and abroad.[11][12] In 2008 he went to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, to do his master's degree in Governance and Development.[12][13] Shantanu is also a Gurkul Chevening fellow from the University of Oxford, UK.[14]

Career

Gupta started his career with a CAD/CAM software company in Hyderabad named Intergraph and over the years worked for different organizations like Quark, Geometric Software, Mercedes-Benz, Amdocs and Wipro.[15] Later he left corporate life and started his social sector career with Naandi Foundation.[16][17][18][11][13][19] Under Naandi, he helped manage projects related to remedial education interventions in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra & New Delhi. He also worked with UNICEF for its Integrated District Approach (IDA) project in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh.[12][11][20] Subsequently, he became the part of Centre for Civil Society (CCS), a think tank.[21][22] Gupta has been a proponent of private schools with a lower fee option, vis a vis government run free and subsidized schools.[23][24][25]

He is also the communication advisor to Baba Ramdev[26][27][28] and alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur[12] and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, (United Kingdom) in India.[11]

Gupta had left his corporate career and became an author and he writes on political & policy issues.[29][30][31]

The Ramayana School

Gupta has founded The Ramayana School, which describes itself as "an endeavor to explore and contextualize the life lessons present in Ramayana to the present times.

Works

Gupta launched his book Ajay to Yogi Adityanath in the Indian Embassy in London and in the British Parliament.[32] For the same book Gupta create a Asia Book of Records, by launching it in 51 Schools of Uttar Pradesh together.[33]

Gupta has authored the India's Football Dream,[34] Education Policy in India: Voice Choice and Incentives (2015),[35] Man Ki Baat[36] and Uttar Pradesh - Vikas Ki Prateeksha Mein.[36]

Gupta wrote The Monk Who Became Chief Minister, biography of 22nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh-Yogi Adityanath.[5] Book was published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing.[5] He wrote another book The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh which was published in 2021 by Garuda Prakashan.

His recent work in 2024 is 101 Reasons, Why I Will Vote For Modi, [37]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Presidential Elections 2017: Know how President is elected?". youtube. ZeeNews. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. ^ "JNU to conduct webinar on 'Leadership lessons through Ramayana'". Hindustan Times. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ^ Gupta, Shantanu (2019). BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World's Largest Political Party. ASIN 9353337828.
  5. ^ a b c "'The Monk Who Became Chief Minister' Explores Yogi Adityanath's journey". Business Standard Private Ltd. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  6. ^ "The Monk who Transformed Uttar Pradesh". www.garudabooks.com. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  7. ^ Gupta, Shantanu (2021). The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh. India: Garuda Prakashan. ISBN 978-1942426875.
  8. ^ "'Ajay To Yogi Adityanath': Graphic novel on UP CM Yogi Adityanath launched in Hyderabad". The Times of India. 15 August 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  9. ^ Bureau, The Hindu (28 March 2024). "Using graphic novel style to target voters in 2024 Lok Sabha elections 101 reasons to vote for Modi". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 8 April 2024. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ Menon, Vandana (30 March 2024). "Yogi biographer gives young Indians 101 reasons to vote for Modi – in comic form". ThePrint. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d "Shantanu Gupta - Alumni Ambassador India". ids. Institute of Development Studies. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  12. ^ a b c d "Shantanu GUpta". ccsindia. Centre for Civil Society. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  13. ^ a b eshgheman (19 June 2010). "From corporate to making the world a better place: Interview with Shantanu". Life as I know it. LiveJournal. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Chevening Gurukul Fellows | Chevening". Retrieved 8 April 2024.
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  19. ^ "Are affordable private schools really affordable?". Teacherplus (January 2010). 26 November 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  20. ^ "Improving Children's Lives, Transforming the Future" (PDF). unicef. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Private Schools for Poor Pressured by Right to Education Act". The New York Times Company. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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  25. ^ "Long wait for guest teachers". Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  26. ^ "Bend it like Baba: Ramdev on the field to promote Modi's pet-projects". HT Media Limited. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  27. ^ Srivastava, Swadeep. "Who Can Beat Baba Ramdev On Business Front?". BW Businessworld. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  28. ^ Bhatia, Rahul; Lasseter, Tom. "As Modi and his Hindu base rise, so too does a yoga tycoon". Reuters. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  29. ^ "Yogi has revolutionised governance in UP". Hindustan Times. 22 September 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  30. ^ "Shantanu Gupta: Exclusive News Stories by Shantanu Gupta on Current Affairs, Events at News18". News18. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  31. ^ "Shantanu Gupta". The Indian Express. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  32. ^ "British MP congratulates Yogi Adityanath for UP's 'changed perception'". The Economic Times. 1 October 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  33. ^ "Ajay to Yogi Adityanath: New graphic novel on Uttar Pradesh CM's life creates Asia Book of Records". Firstpost. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  34. ^ "India's Football Dream". SAGE Publishing.
  35. ^ "Education in India: Voice, Choice & Incentives" (PDF). ccs. CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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  37. ^ "Shantanu Gupta's graphic novel '101 Reasons, Why I Will Vote For Modi' released".