Hindol Sengupta

Hindol Sengupta (born 1979) is an Indian journalist, writer and entrepreneur. He is an award winning journalist and the author of six books. His latest book Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You was released by Penguin Random House in November 2015. The book has won praise from economist and scholar Bibek Debroy, who is also the translator of the Mahabharat, the Indologist Michel Danino who teaches at IIT-Gandhinagar, R. Vaidyanathan, professor at IIM Bangalore and the popular writer Amish Tripathi.

He lives in Delhi and is currently Editor-at-Large at Fortune India. In 2015 his seminal book on India's underbelly of entrepreneurship, Recasting India, was shortlisted for one of the world's most renowned prizes in economic writing, the Hayek Book Prize, given by the Manhattan Institute. He became the youngest writer ever, at 34, to be nominated for the Hayek Prize and the first ever from India.

At 22, he was Features Editor running the global feature service of the IANS, serving news features and long form journalism from India across more than 30 countries. At 25, he worked with Pearson Plc to write the first book on India’s mushrooming fashion industry, Indian Fashion, which became an industry standard. His next, at the age of 28, was Ramp Up : The Business of Indian Fashion, was described as a Thomas Friedmanesque take on the industry and once again became a defining text.[1]

He was one of the youngest television journalists to have a prime time interview show, Talk Back on Bloomberg TV, at 28.

The Liberals

In 2012, he published his first creative non-fiction work, The Liberals, with HarperCollins India. This is the autobiography of liberalization, entertaining and engaging, it is an insider’s account of finding one’s place in a newly liberalized India.[2] The book has won praise from a wide range of public intellectuals, including, British economist and Labour Party peer Lord Meghnad Desai who wrote, 'Hindol's droll memoirs will echo in many a young person's mind. He speaks for India's future.'The best-selling author Gurcharan Das called it, 'An engaging personal tale of the post-reform generation told with spirit by one of its children.'[3] The columnist Santosh Desai spoke of the book's 'cheeky intelligence and delicious insight'. V. Raghunathan, the best-selling author, called it 'a charming piece of work' and the celebrated author and hotelier Aman Nath said he enjoyed, 'not just the piercing tone but the honesty of image and confession'.

100 Things To Know And Debate Before You Vote

In 2014, he published 100 Things To Know And Debate Before You Vote, a tongue-in-cheek and acerbic guide to the most critical issues that ought to be discussed before the crucial election. This was once again published by Harper Collins and had inputs from pharma billionaire and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, agricultural activist Devinder Sharma, Dalit scholar Chandra Bhan Prasad, Kashmiri economist and banker Haseeb Drabu, economist and Labour Party peer Lord Meghnad Desai, hotelier and Neemrana founder Aman Nath and AIDS activist and Naz Foundation head Anjali Gopalan.

Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is changing the World's Largest Democracy

His in-depth exploration of enterprise and society Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is changing the World's Largest Democracy was published in Fall 2014 in America and all other territories outside India by Palgrave Macmillan, and in India, in January 2015. It won praise from Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy, the economist Arvind Panagariya, and the management expert Vijay Govindarajan.

Entrepreneurial Achievements

Hindol Sengupta is the founder of India’s first open government platform, the Whypoll Trust whose work has been reported across the world from The New York Times[4] to the Christian Science Monitor. He has conceptualized Netaspeak, one of the Whypoll projects, which is the only political Twitter feed aggregation and analysis tool in India.[5] Neta is the Hindi word for leader. He is also the founder of the India ArcLight Project which seeks to democratize access to the artistic experience. He was voted by the global ideas platform IdeaMensch on its 2011 list of 33 Entrepreneurs Who Make The World A Better Place.[6]

He is currently in the process of establishing the niche publishing venture Paperweight and the art-selling platform The Outline.[7]

Early life

Sengupta graduated with a Masters degree (First Class) in Mass Communication from the iconic Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. He also holds a First Class Bachelor of Honours degree in Journalism from Delhi University where he was ranked first in journalism at his college, the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, which has the oldest Journalism course in the university.

He was born in Jamshedpur and grew up in Kolkata where he studied science at the Assembly of God Church School and founded the school's first Shakespearean dramatics society. He was selected by one of the country's oldest newspapers, The Statesman, as a student columnist while still in high school and was the first student of A. G. Church to achieve this.

References

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  1. ↑ "Outlook India Review".
  2. ↑ "HarperCollins India Book Detail".
  3. ↑ "Rediff Books".
  4. ↑ Roy, Nilanjana S. (8 November 2011). "The New York Times".
  5. ↑ "Netaspeak Twitter".
  6. ↑ "IdeaMensch".
  7. ↑ "The Outline".
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