Author Profiles
Shiksha ExternalAuthors
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This account contains a repository of informative articles by external authors with domain expertise in various aspects of guiding students on how to go about pursuing their undergraduate and postgraduate studies in India. The topics cover A to Z of education trends, insights, and expert guidance on career/course/college selection across higher education streams.Current Position: Shiksha External Article Archives
Specialities in : Exclusive information from Education Experts
Chhavi Sharma
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Chhavi is a movie buff and a foodie, but this young woman hates shopping. Wasting no time in shop-hopping, she enjoys spending her weekends hanging out with family and friends.Current Position: Manager – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Design
Anum Ansari
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"Writing is not about an accurate grammar, it's about the honest thoughts you put in it". Having a versatile writing style, Anum loves to express her views and opinion on different topics like education, entertainment, lifestyle and more. She is an animal lover, who like spending her free time taking care of strays.Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : School-level exams, University admissions
Anupama Mehra
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"The pen is mightier than the sword". Anupama totally believe in this and respects what she conveys through it. She is a vivid writer, who loves to write about education, lifestyle, and governance. She is a hardcore book lover and wish to gain as much possible through reading. She is a people person, as she believes every individual in turn helps to learn and live life better.Current Position: Senior Executive- Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : News
Vipra Shrivastava
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Vipra is a binge TV watcher and a massive Game of Thrones fan. When not watching TV she likes to spend time updating the list of places she wants to visit and people she wants to meet, but she is most happy in the company of dogs.Current Position: Manager - Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Management Education
Shikha Anand
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With a huge appetite for scrumptious food, Shikha is a big foodie and enjoys watching movies the most. Shopping is not really her cup of tea but her favourite pastime is spending quality time with friends and family.Current Position: Manager - Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Hospitality, Design, Law, Mass Communication, Animation
Anangsha Patra
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A mass communication and journalism post-graduate, Anangsha has worked as a reporter and sub-editor and enjoys working in the education domain.Current Position: Assistant Manager – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Management
Mystory Writers
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This account contains a repository of Mystory articles by college students and professionals from all walks of life talking about why they selected a particular course/college/career and corresponding challenges and learnings. The first hand experiences shared on various aspects of life in and after college is meant to help aspirants to make well informed choices about their undergraduate and postgraduate studies in India across higher education streams.Current Position: Mystory Article Archives
Specialities in : Campus experiences and Guidance on college/course/career selection
Brett Ellis
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Brett is a die-hard sports fan, a musician and a traveler. Other than the hobbies mentioned, he enjoys penning words to paper, describing life's boundless journey in a never ending script.Current Position: Senior Executive - Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Mass Communication & Media, Humanities & Social Sciences, Arts
Shiksha Authors
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This account contains informative articles by Shiksha in-house content team as well as external authors with domain expertise in various aspects of guiding students on how to go about pursuing their undergraduate and postgraduate studies abroad. The articles cover a wide range of topics right from introduction to popular study abroad destinations, shortlisting colleges, preparing for tests required for admission, applying to colleges, Visa procedure, cost of living, and much more.Current Position: Shiksha article archives
Specialities in : Study abroad guidance for UG and PG students
Kapil Dhamija
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Kapil is a foodie and a wanderer. With a passion for exploring and reading, he is trying to experience all the cultures of this country. The remaining time he spends with his friends and binge-watching.Current Position: Sr Executive, Communities - Shiksha.com
Specialities in : College and University information
Jasleen Taneja
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With a degree in MBA from ICFAI University and work experience in all sectors of education, Jasleen wishes to guide students to choose a perfect academic course in accordance to their personality to build a bright future. On the personal front, she loves adventure sports and is fond of baking and grilling delicacies for family and friends. She also is a voracious reader and loves fiction.Current Position: Asst. Manager – Editorial, Shiksha
Specialities in : School-level exams, University admissions
Yamini Saini
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Yamini is a movie-buff and an avid reader. She loves exploring new things, travelling and trying out new adventure sports. Yamini also loves to shop and spend time with family and friends.Current Position: Senior Executive- Content, Editorial- Shiksha.com
Specialities in : School-level exams, University admissions
Gitumoni Baruah
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Gitumoni is an explorer, who loves to gather ideas and experiences by meeting different people and travelling to new places. She spends most of her leisure time in reading novels and short stories. She is a Marvel fan and loves the characters in it. She believes in doing little things in a great way.Current Position: Senior Executive – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Engineering
Akash Tomer
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With over seven years of experience, Akash is well versed with every domain of education sector. He is a computer game enthusiast and loves driving.Current Position: Manager – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Education, Courses, Entrance Exam, Engineering Education
Dr Sonali Jolly
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A dentist by profession, Sonali chose to follow her heart and turned her hobby of writing into a career. She believes it is important to pick a right career, and thus tries to help students make this life altering choice. She loves watching movies and exploring new places.Current Position: Senior Executive, Editorial Shiksha
Specialities in : Medicine and allied courses
Rachit Kumar Saxena
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With over eight years of experience in the government exam and its preparation domain, Rachit knows the life cycle of almost all the government exam and related information. He deeply understands the user requirements and endeavours to fulfil it. He is fond of movies and music in addition to enjoying Cricket.Current Position: Manager – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Sarkari Exams and their preparation
Rajdeep Das
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Rajdeep, an ardent lover of music, also prefers to sweat out at the gym, reading novels and party with friends. He loves to spend time with pets and is very compassionate to animals. Last but not the least, he loves anything which contains chocolate.Current Position: Senior Executive Content – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Sarkari Exams
Saumya Jain
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I am a travel enthusiast and a dreamer. I love to paint and want to travel the world. I also have a knack for baking.Current Position: Senior Executive-Content
Specialities in : Management related higher education exams, courses and colleges
Shiksha Knowledge Series
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This account contains a repository of insightful articles by subject matter experts from all walks of life talking in-depth about various facets of course/college/career selection and corresponding challenges and learnings. The knowledge shared on focused topics is meant to help aspirants introspect and make well informed choices about their undergraduate and postgraduate studies in India across higher education streams.Current Position: Knowledge Series Archives
Specialities in : Expert Guidance on college/course/career selection
Sreetama Datta Roy
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Sreetama has over a decade of editorial experience in higher education beat. A wanderlust by passion, she is also an avid reader and a music lover. Among friends, she is popular for her sense of humour.Current Position: Manager – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Management education and entrance exams
Mandeep Kumar
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I am an Electrical Engineering Graduate. I follow the educational events and write about them to share valuable information with the aspirants.Current Position: Senior Executive Content – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Engineering Entrance Exam, Engineering Education
Rakhee Sharma
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I have around five years of experience in news and other major sections of content. I love sketching, watching movies and loves reading books based on positivity. I do standup comedy, theatre and write plays as well.Current Position: Assistant Manager – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : News Content, Interviewing people, Writing and story telling
Hari Mahendra
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A Journalist by profession, Hari keeps an close eye on career updates and provides thorough details of entrance exams and career options to choose after 12th. He is a movie buff and has a keen interest in cars, bikes and tech gadgets.Current Position: Senior Executive – Editorial, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Medicine and allied courses
Shipra Anand
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A post graduate in design from NIFT, New Delhi, Shipra Anand is an established name in Design and Fashion academics and counseling circles with over 18 years of rich industry experience. She is one of the empanelled designers of DC (Handicrafts) Govt. of India and has worked with the likes of Lacoste and Wild Orchids. Her careful career counselling coupled with indigenously designed courseware and teaching methodologies, and the best of faculties and resources at her academy have helped shape hundreds of aspirants into designers from prestigious colleges like NID, NIFT etc.Current Position: Founder Director, Academy for Fashion Careers
Specialities in : Fashion & Design education and counselling
Taniya Sarkar
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Taniya Sarkar is a content writer by profession. Music and reading are the things that have an equal place in her heart. She is a tech-savvy person and an avid travel enthusiast. Exploring new places, food & people has always fascinated her.Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : BTech
Mani Khanna
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Mani is a content curator by profession, a reader by choice, an all time good listener and a vegetarian junk foodie at heart. When she's not being any of these, she could be seen binge watching FRIENDS or Modern Family.Current Position: Assistant Manager – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : MBA/PGDM
Nupur Sehgal
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A content developer by profession, Nupur is bitten by a giant travel bug. She loves to explore places and meet new people. Dogs and dark chocolates make her go weak at her knees. Leisure hours make her either binge-watch on Netflix or indulge in online shopping.Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : BTech
Parasharan Chari
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Parasharan Chari is an alumnus of SP Jain and is currently serving as the chief operating officer at Endeavor Careers and is also associated with the design and development of its online testing portal CatGurus.comCurrent Position: COO, Endeavor Careers
Specialities in : Management
Ramesh Batlish
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IITJEE & AIEEE expert coach Ramesh, holds a BE in Electronics &Telecom (Hons). He is a senior Mathematics faculty with over a decade of successful association with IIT-JEE coaching.Current Position: Centre Head, FIITJEE - Noida
Specialities in : Science & Engineering, Medicine
Shaun D'Sa
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Shaun D'Sa has a Master's degree in Industrial Design from IIT Delhi. He is Director at Design Quotient Labs (DQ Labs), a coaching platform for Architecture and Design entrance exams.He began his career with General Motors Advanced Design Center at Bangalore, where he had the opportunity to work with design teams for car brands like Hummer, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Holden, Buick to name a few. Shaun has also been a part of many teams of International and Indian designers for design centric ethnographic studies across India and abroad. Due to his passion for Design and Architecture, he has travelled extensively abroad and has been a part of many design workshops in many countries across Europe.
Current Position: Director, Design Quotient Labs (DQ Labs)
Specialities in : Design education and counselling
Shruti Sharma
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Shruti Sharma is a content writer by profession. She is very passionate about writing content. She is an enthusiast who likes to visit and explore new places. She believes that human life is a journey and settling at one place without exploring something new is not living.Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : BA LLB (Hons)
Aakash Chaudhry
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An alumnus of Harvard Business School in Boston (US), Aakash is an engineer with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.Current Position: Director, Aakash Educational Services Ltd
Specialities in : Science & Engineering, Medicine
Prasanna Gadkari
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Prasanna Gadkari is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He has mentored hundreds of aspirants to reach their dream of doing Master in Design (M.Des) from IITs, IISc and NID. He runs TeaCupBlog, a place where he and other students share their tips and experiences on pro bono basis. Prasanna has rich product design experience in automotive, aerospace and military, having worked with MNCs like Eaton Corporation, Larsen and Toubro, etc. In his free time Prasanna can be found clicking photographs or sketching.Current Position: Product Designer
Specialities in : Design education
Vaishnavi Shukla
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Vaishnavi Shukla is Corporate Attorney - India Head at Loyal Hospitality Pvt Ltd, an exclusive franchisee of Empire Group of Hotels. She has completed her graduation in law from Institute of Legal Studies (BILS), Bangalore. She has also completed her LLM from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.Current Position: Corporate Attorney - India Head, Loyal Hospitality Pvt Ltd
Specialities in : Law education and counselling
Alok Bansal
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Alok pursued his higher education from Delhi College of Engineering and Xavier Institute of Management. He is currently director IMS Delhi Region at IMS Learning Resources - popular coaching institute that trains students for MBA entrance exams like CAT, XAT and GMAT.Current Position: Director, IMS - Delhi
Specialities in : Management
Lalit Bhandari
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Lalit takes assertion in introducing himself as a keen debator, political critic, religiously challenged and a sarcasm enthusiast. He loves to travel and can beat you at 'Countries & Capitals' and doing Garudasana. Loves to binge watch netflix, for just in case.Current Position: Assistant Manager – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Medicine & Health Sciences
Govind Sharma
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Govind’s higher education qualifications include MA – English (University of Mumbai), MBA - HRM (Pondicherry University), and MPhil Management (TGOU). He has over eight years of professional experience in Human Resources and Administration and enjoys blogging and career counselling too.Current Position: Manager – HR & Administration, in an MNC
Specialities in : Career planning, course & college selection, employment trend
Kritika Jain
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A firm believer of Oxford commas and literary theories. Whenever given a vacation, Kritika rushes to the mountains. She stands by the notion of "Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be."Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : MBA/PGDM, Executive MBA
Aakash Deep Bansal
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Artistic by nature, binge watcher and Pro-SRKian, Aakash is a cinephile. He does theatre on weekends as he is passionate for acting and loves participating in sports. He is also into gadgets which makes him a techie geek.Current Position: Senior Executive – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Medicine & Health Sciences
Divya Shakti Shukla
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Divya Shakti is a multifaceted individual who can weave his feelings into stories and scripts. Exploring and travelling is what he likes the most.Current Position: Assistant Manager – Content, Shiksha.com
Specialities in : Engineering
Nikhlesh Mathur
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Nikhlesh is a chemical engineer from NIT Rourkela and has also done MBA with specialisation in Total Quality Management. He has over thirty years of professional experience. Writing is one of his main hobbies. His maiden book on chemical engineering titled ‘Learning Chemical Engineering for Process Industries’ is out for publishing. Besides writing on management related topics and counselling students, Nikhlesh is also interested in scientific astrology, which he practices in leisure time.Current Position: Works Manager in a reputed chemical manufacturing company
Specialities in : Career guidance, Course & college selection, Study methods and Interview tips