Arun Katiyar

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Arun Katiyar is an Indian journalist. He has worked as journalist and editor with the India Today Group.

Arun was the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the India Today Group's [1] online venture. He later moved on to become the station director for the country's first 24-hour private FM radio station, Radio City (Indian radio station) [2] and then became Vice President, Operations, of Microland's technical support business. In 2005 he led a start up as CEO called SEraja [3] funded by entrepreneur Rajesh Jain that addressed the media-centric management of events using the Internet and mobile phones. Esther Dyson's Quarterly Report on digital technology, Release 1.0, described SEraja as "perhaps the most ambitious events project" [4] they had come across. SEraja was the brainchild of Ramesh Jain, Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine and the founder of IEEE MultiMedia. SEraja failed to create the ambitious EventWeb it had set out to build. In 2007, the project had to be shut down. Arun continues to pursue his interest in researching and writing about technology. He was part of the research and documentation team of the Karnataka Information and Technology Group 2020 (KIG 2020) constituted by the Government of Karnataka, India, in 2012 whose objective was to provide recommendations refocusing the state's goals in information technology. [5]

Arun has produced a rock album for CBS, has authored a book for HarperCollins Publishers—Bombay A Contemporary Account of Mumbai [6] and in 2023, he was on the five-member jury of Tata Literature Live, The Mumbai LitFest, for Book of the Year and First Book (Non-Fiction Category) [7] [8]

He attended St. Xavier's College, Mumbai from 1977 to 1981 and was listed under "Alumni of Distinction from St Xavier's College, Bombay" [9] in 2006.

Amongst the personal interests that Arun has pursued is cycling. He was part of the team that created the non-competitive 800-km bicycling event [10] called the Tour of Nilgiris in 2008. [11] [12]

He continues to write for a variety of publications and has been invited by UN Habitat to present his thinking in the area of urbanization and the environment. [13]

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