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. 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. He is a post-graduate in international journalism from Cardiff University and a graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi. He wrote the fictional book, Operation Jinnah, in 2017. In 2018 he co-authored India's Most Fearless and then the sequel in 2019. The first part sold over 40,000 copies.
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 Galwan battle of 2020 has been acquired to be made into a film by Apoorva Lakhia.
He is the great grandson of popular Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao.
Books
Author
Operation Jinnah (2017). Juggernaut.
Co-Author
India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes (2018), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice (2019), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. India's Most Fearless 3: New Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice (2022), Penguin, Co-authored with Rahul Singh.