Shiv Aroor
Shiv Aroor | |
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Born | 25 September 1980 |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | BA (Hon) English, MA International Journalism |
Alma mater | Cardiff University, St. Stephen's College, Delhi |
Organization | India Today |
Shiv Aroor is an Indian journalist and author. He is an editor and anchor at India Today (TV channel). He is also a defence correspondent, having done conflict reporting from defence zones such as Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Libya.[1][2][3][4][5] He also runs a defence website called Livefist.com which he founded in 2007, which was a winner in the 2012 and 2013 DefenceIQ Blogging Awards in the category Regional Defence blog.[6][7] He is a post-graduate in international journalism from Cardiff University and a graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi.[6][8] He wrote the fictional book, Operation Jinnah, in 2017.[6] In 2018 he co-authored India's Most Fearless and then the sequel in 2019. The first part sold over 40,000 copies.[9]
He is the grandson of popular Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao.
Books
Author
- Operation Jinnah (2017). Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228260
Co-Author
- India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes (2018), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. ISBN 9780143440444
- India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice (2019), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. ISBN 9780143443155
References
- ^ "Shiv Aroor - Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019". Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "Shiv Aroor - Penguin India". Penguin India. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "Shiv Aroor". India Today. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Malhotra, Shivya (2017-06-08). "Shiv Aroor, the man and his real loves". Newsd. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "Shiv Aroor | Jaipur Literature Festival". Jaipur Literature Festival. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ a b c Khan, Saif Ahmad (3 April 2017). "Shiv Aroor to scale up own website after relinquishing full-time role at India Today - Exchange4media". Exchange4Media. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Tanner, Samantha (2012-06-20). "And the winner is… Defence IQ Blogging Awards 2012 results announced". Defence IQ. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "CV of Shiv Aroor". shivaroor.tripod.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "Book sequel to give exclusive account of Balakot airstrikes, surgical strikes". The Economic Times. 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-08-19.