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The Liberals, 5 Things to Know and Debate Before You Vote, 100 Things to Know and Debate Before You Vote

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Hindol Sengupta (born 1979) is an Indian journalist and entrepreneur, who is the award-winning author of eight books. In 2017, he was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His three new upcoming books are: a narrative non-fiction, a historical fiction and a history of the free markets in India to be published by Penguin and Simon & Schuster. Among his recent books are the bestselling Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You, The Modern Monk: What Vivekananda Means To Us Today, and The Sacred Sword: The Legend of Guru Gobind Singh. He is the youngest winner of the PSF prize for public service, an award won by, among others, the late Indian scientist and President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

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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.

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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.

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

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The Liberals

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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. 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.' 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 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. 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.

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

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.

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