With kids of a govt school

Update – I have quit Yahoo in Jan 2012 and am now working on creating another business. And this time, it is based on my biggest passion – Cricket. Watch out for more updates in the coming days as I plan to launch it by April..

Born in 1983, I was brought up in Janak Puri and Uttam Nagar areas of West Delhi. My mother has been always the backbone at home, and my father, at various times, an entrepreneur, a share broker and a shop owner.

I passed out of St. Marks. School, Delhi in 2001. It was during the last 2 years in school that the computer bug hit me. After that, I did my engineering from Jaipur (that was the only university I could qualify for) in I.T. In the last 2 years of school and during college, I was a total techie doing coding, assembling computers, making projects, and what not!!

An engineer in 2005, I started working for InfoEdge India Ltd, India’s largest Internet company and the parent company of naukri.com as a software engineer in Noida. After 2 years, I started my own company SaleRaja.com part-time and was also leading a team of 14 people in InfoEdge. In 2008, I moved out of InfoEdge to Bangalore to focus more on SaleRaja while I worked at Jivox.

SaleRaja has been a major learning and experience curve in my career. Dealing with various issues in starting and running a company, and coordinating with founding partners, employees and customers made me much better prepared for future ventures and life. SaleRaja is now running only as a website now, no more as a business. (Update – it might be back as a business soon)

Distributing dustbins in HSR layout

I joined Yahoo! in March 2010. Since then, I have been involved in some social activities in the areas of Waste Management and Against Corruption. Some of the areas very close to my heart are kids education, women empowerment, corruption, and waste management in households and public places alike. I have got good response from these two initiatives I have taken and will continue to take more initiatives in the areas that excite me. It has also given me tremendous maturity and confidence to deal with different situations and driving a positive change. I started Pick A Fight to work and connect with fighters all over this wonderful country in May 2011!!

Organized the Anti-Corruption Dandi March 2 in Bangalore

I have always been a keen technologist, keeping track of all the events in the tech world since my school days. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in technology and business have always excited me. Have started reading books regularly, from topics ranging from fiction, business, self-help, among others. Cricket and Traveling are the other two things that keep me busy. My friends say my cricket knowledge is quite comprehensive and I can churn out cricket records faster than google sometimes…

On the road

I have always enjoyed whenever I have traveled across India. Have been to some memorable places like Jim Corbett Park, Manali, Mashobra, Rishikesh, Kodaikanal, etc. These days I prefer riding to new destinations on my Bull…

You can read all about my travels, memorable experiences, my views on cricket, the latest books I have read, life and society in general here on my site.

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