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Shiv Aroor

Shiv Aroor is an Indian journalist, writer, and television anchor. He currently serves as the Managing Editor at ''NDTV'', having previously held the position of Senior Executive Editor ''India Today''. He's an expert in defense and security affairs, has covered conflicts as a defense correspondent, reporting from regions like Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Libya. He also runs a defense website called ''livefistdefence.com'', which he founded in 2007 and which was a winner in the 2012 and 2013 DefenceIQ Blogging Awards in the category Regional Defence Blog.

Aroor is a post-graduate in international journalism from Cardiff University in the UK and a graduate from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He wrote the book, ''Operation Jinnah'', in 2017. 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 segments of his book, which is related to Major Mukund Varadarajan.

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. One of the chapters from the book about the Battle of Galwan has been acquired to be made into a film by Apoorva Lakhia.

Aroor is the great-grandson of Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao. Provided by Wikipedia