Shiv Aroor

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Shiv Aroor
Born (1980-09-25) 25 September 1980 (age 44)
Nationality Indian
EducationBA (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 book, Operation Jinnah, in 2017. [6] In 2018, he co-authored India's Most Fearless and then its sequels in 2019 and 2022, respectively. The 2024 Tamil blockbuster Amaran was based on one of the segment of his book which is related to Major Mukund Varadarajan. [9] [10]

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. [11] [12] 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. [13]

He is the great-grandson of Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao. [14]

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