Shivaji Das

Shivaji Das is the author of Amazon #1 Bestseller “The Other Shangri-La: Journeys through the Sino-Tibetan frontier in Sichuan,’ Konark Books (2020), ‘Angels by the Murky River: Travels Off the Beaten Track,’ Yoda Press (2017), ‘Journeys with the caterpillar: Travelling through the islands of Flores and Sumba, Indonesia,’ and ‘Sacred Love: Erotic art in the temples of Nepal,’ Mandala Publications/ Aadarsh Books (2018). He was the first prize winner for Time Magazine’s Sub-Continental Drift Essay contest and shortlisted for Fair Australia Prize for Short Stories.

​Shivaji has been actively involved in migrant issues and is the conceptualizer and organizer for the acclaimed Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Contests in Singapore, Malaysia and Kenya and is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival.

Shivaji’s work and his interviews have been featured on BBC, CNBC, The Economist, Travel Radio Australia, Around the World TV, etc. Shivaji’s writings have been published in magazines such as TIME, South China Morning Post, Think China, Asian Geographic, Jakarta Post, Conscious Magazine, PanaJournal, Freethinker, etc.

Shivaji Das was born and brought up in the north-eastern province of Assam in India. He is a graduate from IIT Delhi and has an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Shivaji works as the Managing Director-APAC for Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting company. He is currently a Singapore citizen.

http://www.shivajidas.com