Shantanu Gupta


Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author and political analyst. He is also the founder of . Gupta has authored six books including Bharatiya Janata Party - Story of World's Largest Political Party, The Monk Who Became Chief Minister which is biography of the 22nd and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh - Yogi Adityanath.

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. 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. In 2008 he went to the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, to do his Masters in Governance and Development.

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. Later he left corporate life and started his social sector career with Naandi Foundation. 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 project in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh. Subsequently, he became the part of Centre for Civil Society, a think tank. Gupta has been a proponent of private schools with a lower fee option, vis a vis government run free and subsidized schools.
He is also the communication advisor to Baba Ramdev and alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, in India.
Gupta had left his corporate career and became an author and he writes on political issues.

Works

Gupta has authored the India's Football Dream, Education Policy in India: Voice Choice and Incentives , Man Ki Baat 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.
Gupta also wrote Bharatiya Janata Party: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World's Largest Political Party which was published by Rupa Publications in 2019. His book will be included in syllabus of undergraduate students of South Asian studies in Islamic University of Indonesia.