Shantanu Gupta

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Shantanu Gupta

| image = Shantanu Gupta Photo.png

| caption = Shantanu Gupta in 2017

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1979|2|7}}

| birth_place = Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

| occupation = Author, political analyst

| language = English, Hindi

| nationality = Indian

| education = XLRI - Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur, University of Sussex

| genre = Non-Fiction

| notableworks = The Monk Who Became Chief Minister, Bharatiya Janata Party - Past, Present & Future, India's Football Dreams, Uttar Pradesh - Vikas Ki Prateeksha Mein

| spouse = Swetha Rao Duggu

| children = Abhiram, Nakshatra

| signature =

| website = {{URL|www.shantanugupta.in}}

}}

Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author and political analyst.{{cite web|title=Presidential Elections 2017: Know how President is elected?|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExutzukHL-s|website=youtube|publisher=ZeeNews|accessdate=18 August 2017}} He is also the founder of The Ramayana School.{{Cite web|title=JNU to conduct webinar on 'Leadership lessons through Ramayana'|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/jnu-to-conduct-webinar-on-leadership-lessons-through-ramayana/story-tayKlysHre4zVtxhKcWUwN.html|date=2020-04-28|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2020-05-14}} Gupta has authored ten books including Bharatiya Janata Party: Past, Present and Future— Story of World's Largest Political Party{{Cite book|title=BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World's Largest Political Party|last=Gupta|first=Shantanu|date=2019|id={{ASIN|9353337828|country=in}}}} and The Monk Who Became Chief Minister which is biography of the 22nd and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh - Yogi Adityanath.{{cite web|title=The Monk Who Became Chief Minister The Definitive Biography Of Yogi Adityanath|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/the-monk-who-became-chief-minister-9789386606181/|website=bloomsbury|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc|accessdate=18 August 2017}}{{cite news|title='The Monk Who Became Chief Minister' Explores Yogi Adityanath's journey|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/the-monk-who-became-chief-minister-explores-yogi-adityanath-s-journey-117081601134_1.html|accessdate=18 August 2017|publisher=Business Standard Private Ltd.|date=16 August 2017}} Gupta has written the sequel of Yogi Adityanath's biography The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh {{Cite web |title=The Monk who Transformed Uttar Pradesh |url=https://www.garudabooks.com/the-monk-who-transformed-uttar-pradesh |access-date=2021-12-06 |website=www.garudabooks.com |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=Shantanu |title=The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh |publisher=Garuda Prakashan |year=2021 |isbn=978-1942426875 |location=India |language=English}} and graphic novel on the same, Ajay to Yogi Adityanath.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-15 |title='Ajay To Yogi Adityanath’: Graphic novel on UP CM Yogi Adityanath launched in Hyderabad |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ajay-to-yogi-adityanath-graphic-novel-on-up-cm-yogi-adityanath-launched-hyderabad/articleshow/102743200.cms |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Bureau |first=The Hindu |date=2024-03-28 |title=Using graphic novel style to target voters in 2024 Lok Sabha elections 101 reasons to vote for Modi |url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/using-graphic-novel-style-to-target-voters-in-2024-lok-sabha-elections/article68001124.ece |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite web |last=Menon |first=Vandana |date=2024-03-30 |title=Yogi biographer gives young Indians 101 reasons to vote for Modi – in comic form |url=https://theprint.in/feature/yogi-biographer-gives-young-indians-101-reasons-to-vote-for-modi-in-comic-form/2020756/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ids.ac.uk/person/shantanu-gupta|title=Shantanu Gupta - Alumni Ambassador India|website=ids|publisher=Institute of Development Studies|accessdate=18 August 2017}}{{cite web|title=Shantanu GUpta|url=http://www.ccsindia.org/people/shantanu-gupta?width=600&height=500|website=ccsindia|publisher=Centre for Civil Society|accessdate=18 August 2017}} 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.{{cite web|author =eshgheman|title=From corporate to making the world a better place: Interview with Shantanu|work=Life as I know it |publisher=LiveJournal|date=19 Jun 2010|url=http://eshgheman.livejournal.com/86450.html|accessdate=18 August 2017}} Shantanu is also a Gurkul Chevening fellow from the University of Oxford, UK.{{Cite web |title=Chevening Gurukul Fellows {{!}} Chevening |url=https://www.chevening.org/fellowships/meet-our-fellows/chevening-gurukul-fellows/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |language=en}}

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.{{cite web|title=I have learnt that one should go into details and not do a superficial job|url=http://temp.timesascent.in/article/81/2011020420110204124915382cde11e71/I-have-learnt-that-one-should-go-into-details-and-not-do-a-superficial-job.html|website=timesascent|publisher=Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd|accessdate=18 August 2017}} Later he left corporate life and started his social sector career with Naandi Foundation.{{cite web |title=About Naandi foundation |url=https://www.nanhikali.org/who-we-are/managing-partners-naandi-foundation.aspx |website=www.nanhikali.org |publisher=mahindra foundation |accessdate=9 April 2019}}{{cite web |title=Naandi and Mahindra foundation - Nanhi Kali project |url=https://mahindrafoundationusa.org/ |website=Mahindra foundation official website |publisher=Mahindra foundation, Delaware, USA |accessdate=9 April 2019}}{{cite web |title=Samhita project for clean drinking water, with Naandi foundation |url=http://www.samhita.org/naandi/ |website=www.samhita.org |publisher=Samhita |accessdate=9 April 2019}}{{cite journal|title=Are affordable private schools really affordable?|journal=Teacherplus|date=26 Nov 2010|issue=January 2010|url=http://www.teacherplus.org/comment/are-affordable-private-schools-really-affordable|accessdate=18 August 2017}} 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.{{cite web|title=Improving Children's Lives, Transforming the Future|url=https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Improving_Children_s_Lives_-_Transforming_the_Future_9_Sep_2014.pdf|website=unicef|accessdate=18 August 2017}} Subsequently, he became the part of Centre for Civil Society (CCS), a think tank.{{cite news|title=Private Schools for Poor Pressured by Right to Education Act|url=https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/private-schools-for-poor-pressured-by-right-to-education-act/?_r=0|accessdate=18 August 2017|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=2 January 2014}}{{cite news|title=CCS among top 100 think tanks|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/CCS-among-top-100-think-tanks/article17114540.ece|accessdate=18 August 2017|work=The Hindu|date=30 January 2017}} Gupta has been a proponent of private schools with a lower fee option, vis a vis government run free and subsidized schools.{{cite news|title=Breaking the class ceiling in education|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/breaking-the-class-ceiling-in-education/article5058702.ece|accessdate=18 August 2017|publisher=The Hindu Business Line|date=25 August 2013}}{{cite web|title=Speakers at the conference|url=http://www.enhfoundation.in/speakers-at-the-conference-2/|website=enhfoundation|publisher=EandHFoundation|accessdate=18 August 2017}}{{cite news|title=Long wait for guest teachers|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Long-wait-for-guest-teachers/articleshow/41727859.cms|accessdate=18 August 2017|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd|date=5 September 2014}}

He is also the communication advisor to Baba Ramdev{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pics-from-yoga-mat-to-football-field-ramdev-essays-new-role-as-brand-ambassador/story-ttiHjvqmmirgEyiP77LU9M.html|title=Bend it like Baba: Ramdev on the field to promote Modi's pet-projects|date=25 July 2016|accessdate=18 August 2017|publisher=HT Media Limited}}{{Cite web|last=Srivastava|first=Swadeep|title=Who Can Beat Baba Ramdev On Business Front?|url=http://businessworld.in/article/Who-Can-Beat-Baba-Ramdev-On-Business-Front-/07-10-2016-106725|access-date=2021-01-23|website=BW Businessworld|language=en}}{{Cite news|last1=Bhatia|first1=Rahul|last2=Lasseter|first2=Tom|title=As Modi and his Hindu base rise, so too does a yoga tycoon|url=http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/india-modi-ramdev/|access-date=2021-01-23|website=Reuters|language=en}} and alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, (United Kingdom) in India.

Gupta had left his corporate career and became an author and he writes on political & policy issues.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/yogi-has-revolutionised-governance-in-up/story-6RDrnRxCIL4BYAZs6N33jL.html|title=Yogi has revolutionised governance in UP|date=2019-09-22|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-11-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/byline/shantanu-gupta.html|title=Shantanu Gupta: Exclusive News Stories by Shantanu Gupta on Current Affairs, Events at News18|website=News18|access-date=2019-11-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/shantanu-gupta/|title=Shantanu Gupta|date=2017-10-12|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-11-24}}

= 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.{{Cite news |date=2023-10-01 |title=British MP congratulates Yogi Adityanath for UP's 'changed perception' |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/british-mp-congratulates-yogi-adityanath-for-ups-changed-perception/articleshow/104087823.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}} For the same book Gupta create a Asia Book of Records, by launching it in 51 Schools of Uttar Pradesh together.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-05 |title=Ajay to Yogi Adityanath: New graphic novel on Uttar Pradesh CM’s life creates Asia Book of Records |url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/ajay-to-yogi-adityanath-new-graphic-novel-on-uttar-pradesh-cms-life-creates-asia-book-of-records-12695092.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Firstpost |language=en-us}}

Gupta has authored the India's Football Dream,{{cite web|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/india%E2%80%99s-football-dream/book269116|title=India's Football Dream|publisher=SAGE Publishing}} Education Policy in India: Voice Choice and Incentives (2015),{{cite web|url=https://ccs.in/sites/default/files/publications/lss8-education-in-india.pdf|title=Education in India: Voice, Choice & Incentives|website=ccs|publisher=CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY|accessdate=18 August 2017}} Man Ki Baat{{Cite web|url=https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/author/shantanu-gupta|title=Gupta, Shantanu|date=2019-11-12|website=SAGE India|language=en-in|access-date=2019-11-24}} and Uttar Pradesh - Vikas Ki Prateeksha Mein.

Gupta wrote The Monk Who Became Chief Minister, biography of 22nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh-Yogi Adityanath. Book was published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing. 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, {{cite web|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/lifestyle/books-culture/shantanu-gupta-s-graphic-novel-101-reasons-why-i-will-vote-for-modi-released-know-details-2024-03-19-922214|title=Shantanu Gupta's graphic novel '101 Reasons, Why I Will Vote For Modi' released}}