Shiv Aroor
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| Born | (1980-09-25) 25 September 1980 (age 43) |
| 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 writer. He is an editor and anchor at India Today. 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 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.[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]
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.[10][11] One of the chapters from the book about the Galwan battle of 2020 has been acquired to be made into a film by Apoorva Lakhia.[12]
He is the great-grandson of popular Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao.[13]
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