Shiv Aroor is an Indian journalist and author. He is an editor and anchor at

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. He is also a defence correspondent, having done conflict reporting from defence zones such as Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Libya. He also runs a defence website called
livefistdefence.com
' which he founded in 2007, which was a winner in the 2012 and 2013 DefenceIQ Blogging Awards in the category Regional Defence blog. He is a post-graduate in international journalism from

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and a graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi. He wrote the fictional book, ''Operation Jinnah'', in 2017. In 2018 he co-authored ''India's Most Fearless'' and then the sequel in 2019. The first part sold over 40,000 copies. India's Most Fearless 3, co-authored with Rahul Singh was released in August 2022. This book was launched by the three service chiefs- Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Admiral R Hari Kumar and General Manoj Pande at an event in New Delhi on 17 January 2023. One of the chapters from the book about the Galwan battle of 2020 has been acquired to be made into a film by

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. He is the great grandson of popular Kannada poet and scholar, Sri

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Books

Author * ''Operation Jinnah'' (2017). Juggernaut. Co-Author * ''India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes'' (2018),

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. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. * ''India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice'' (2019), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. * ''India's Most Fearless 3: New Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice'' (2022), Penguin, Co-authored with Rahul Singh.

References

Living people 20th-century Indian journalists 21st-century Indian journalists Indian newspaper editors Indian male television journalists Alumni of Cardiff University St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni 1980 births Indian journalists {{India-journalist-stub