Aroon Raman is an Indian entrepreneur and author.
Education and early life
Raman was born in India to parents of South Indian descent. He did his Masters in Economics from
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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, Delhi and then pursued his MBA from
Wharton School
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,
University of Pennsylvania
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.
Business life
In 1991, he set up "Raman Boards", a company involved in electrical materials, which was later bought by the
ABB Group
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in 2007. He then started his Research and Development company named "Raman FibreScience" in 2008.
The company specialises in wet-laid composites.
His company is also well known for developing talent at the grassroots level.
In 2010, he was elected Chairman of the
CII Karnataka State Council for a period of one year.
Writing career
In 2012, Pan Macmillan India published Raman's first book, ''
The Shadow Throne'', which became a national bestseller.
The story revolved about a secret society that threatened to launch nuclear weapons on Indian cities and the subsequent attempts to stop them. It was considered among the best Indian fiction releases of the year by ''The Telegraph''
and a racy political thriller by ''The Hindu''.
''The Asian Age'' considered the lead character well sketched out and the chase sequences of the book exciting,
while ''The Hindu'' considered the build-up good and the plot "effectively convoluted".
The ''Hindustan Times'' also called Raman the
Robert Ludlum
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of Indian thrillers.
Raman wrote his second mystery-thriller, ''
The Treasure of Kafur'', over a period of seven years. The book, published in December 2013 by Pan Macmillan India, was set up in Mughal India and has fantasy along partly fictionalised characters.
''The Indian Express'' called the book entertaining and action packed.
His third book, ''
SkyFire'' is a sequel to ''The Shadow Throne'' and was published in 2016.
Bibliography
*Chandrasekhar Series
**''The Shadow Throne'' (2012, Pan Macmillan India)
**''SkyFire'' (2016, Pan Macmillan India)
*''The Treasure of Kafur'' (2013, Pan Macmillan India)
External links
www.aroonraman.com his personal website
References
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Indian male novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)