Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author and political analyst. He is also the founder of The Ramayana School. Gupta has authored six books including '' Bharatiya Janata Party: Past, Present and Future''— Story of World's Largest Political Party and ''

The Monk Who Became Chief Minister ''The Monk Who Became Chief Minister : The Definitive Biography Of Yogi Adityanath'' is a biography of Yogi Adityanath, the 22nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. It is written by Shantanu Gupta, an Indian Author and Political Analyst. The book ...

'' which is biography of the 22nd and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh - Yogi Adityanath. Now Gupta has written the sequel of Yogi Adityanath's biography ''The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh''.

Early life and education

Shantanu Gupta was born on 7 February 1979 in Bareilly, a town in

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

and raised in

Rishikesh Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand. It is situated on the right bank of the Ganges River and is a pilgrimage town for Hindus, with ancient sages and saints medita ...

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, where his father worked in the public sector company

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(IDPL). He did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and subsequently studied engineering degree at

G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology G. B. Pant University of Agriculture, also known as Pantnagar University, is the first agricultural university of India. It was inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru on 17 November 1960 as the "Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University" (UPAU). Later the ...

. He thereafter studied Management at XLRI, Jamshedpur and worked as a consultant for many years in

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and abroad. In 2008 he went to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),

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, to do his Masters in

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and Development.

Career

Gupta started his career with a CAD/CAM software company in

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named

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and over the years worked for different organizations like

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, Geometric Software, Mercedes Benz,

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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 Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

, Maharashtra &

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. He also worked with

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for its Integrated District Approach (IDA) project in Bundelkhand,

. Subsequently, he became the part of Centre for Civil Society (CCS), 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 (IDS),

, (United Kingdom) in India. Gupta had left his corporate career and became an author and he writes on political & policy issues.

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 The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th to 4th centuries BCE, and later stages e ...

to the present times.

Works

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

'', biography of 22nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh- Yogi Adityanath. Book was published in 2017 by

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. He wrote another book ''

The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh is a 2021 book written by Shantanu Gupta Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author and political analyst. He is also the founder of The Ramayana School. Gupta has authored six books including '' Bharatiya Ja ...

'' which was published in 2021 by Garuda Prakashan.

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