Saurabh Kautilya Gupta

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Ceaselessly trying to make the world a better place to live for all

Coloring & Celebrating LIFE

My current HOT Passions::

1) Networking & meeting new people. Connect me to your network on Linkedin:

2) Learning/Unlearning new stuff. Playing the Devil's Advocate & questioning everything.

Connect with me on Quora:

3) Finishing my books of (a) English Short stories (b) Hindi/Urdu Ghazals/Nazms/Poetry (c) 50 Sacrosanct Secrets of Success

4) Business / Product management including- Persuasive HCI, UX design, CX journey, ML, AI, IoT, Robotics, Analytics & Funnels, Data science, Growth Hacking, Game mechanics, Problem Solving, Algorithms, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Economics, Marketing, Operations, Business, P&L, Next Big Things,

5) Apart from above, you; mostly; will find me doing, any of these::

1. Analysing people, nature and the unseen. This includes diving deep into the mysteries of:

   1. Predicting Future:

      1. Palmistry, Astrology, Star Sign Analysis, Numerology, Foot Reading

      2. Michel de Nostredame [Nastradamaus]

   2. Eliminating negative energies (Feng Shui, Vaastu Shastra)

   3. Understanding humans:

• • 1. Body language analysis, Face Expression Analysis

    2. Handwriting Analysis, Signature Analysis

1. 4. Magic (ie. science)

   5. Immortality & Yoga

   6. Srimad Bhagavad Gita

   7. Indian saints - Mahavatar Babaji, Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya, Paramahansa Yogananda, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, Gumnami Baba, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda

   8. Indian Golden History & its par-excellence Cultural values

2. Creativity:

• 1. Promoting Art projects & Artists via my venture. Connect here: Fly Ok Bird or here: Fly Ok Bird

  2. Making Short Films - infotainment & fun

  3. Poetry - Penning Ghazals, Nazms, poetry in Hindi & English - most of them have already got a place in some book/magazine/newspaper. Very soon a collection of the same will be out as a book

  4. Doing mimicry of Indian film Industry's actors

  5. Writing short-stories - Soon a collection of the same will be out as a book.

  6. I am a movie freak & I don't just watch - I anatomize, scrutinize & diagnose them too - Founded/ran a movie discussion Club 'viu' in past

  7. Sketching [rarely]

  8. Building a Music-band

  9. Creating a new Comics on non-SuperHero

  10. Singing - have done Qawwali shows & Ghazal singing at "Lakhshman Mela" event held in Lucknow, U.P.

  11. Theatre/Acting - Did a 1-year course of the same & have done road shows for my NGO

  12. Learnt/played Mandolin in past

3. Learning:

• 1. 3 new sciences:

     1. Ayurveda

     2. Law

     3. Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology

  2. Knowing whats happening around:

• • 1. Reading about business, politics, technology, entertainment, etc online & offline - Thus making sure that I remain up-to-date on mentioned topics. This includes reading non-fiction (books, blogs/web, news)

    2. Active part of multiple online business/design communities in Linkedin, Slack, StackExchange, Quora, Medium

• 3. Earning new business/design skills by doing online/offline courses from world's best schools like IITs, MIT, Stanford

4. Writing:

• 1. Have written non-fiction-essays - Some published.

  2. Blogging (and monetizing the same via Google-AdSense) about:

     1. Extreme stuff & Mysteries at Extreme [ Humans + Creativities + Secrets ]

     2. Business & Product & UX Design Saurabh Kautilya Gupta

  3. Tweeting about:

• • 1. Business & Product & UX design Here

    2. All other stuff Here

• 4. Noting, Analyzing, Learning from Life by writing diaries - I collect analytical data about my life, then find patterns in them, which gives me knowledge

  5. Have authored a book on Product Management

5. Entrepreneurship & Management (Managing & Planning things / people / events around me analytically):

• 1. Bootstrapping / Kick-starting / Masterminding new business ventures via my venture Crazy Emperor. I have spearheaded businesses profitably end-to-end single-handedly and also helped several entrepreneurs kick-start, run & expand their ventures. I am, as-of-date, in Board of Directors of many companies, operating in different sectors.

     1. Ideating, Inventing/Innovating, Implementing. I invented a strategy based board game ISPUSA in 2007 & sold it to a gaming company in 2009. I have also published technical research papers.

  2. Founded/running a whatsapp UX/Design discussion group *Design Powerhouse*

6. Other:

• 1. Walking/ to enhance & maintain my physical fitness & overall health.

  2. Travelling - Have travelled whole of India - World tour supposed to take off soon

  3. Capturing Memories by clicking snaps or making videos - I love capturing the world in my camera

  4. Listening to radio, enjoying web series, watching television - check out here a listing of the best TV channels, Web series & TV serials

  5. Collecting coins [had collected match-boxes, stickers, and what-not in past]

  6. Listening to music - mostly Indian classical and Instrumental

  7. Cooking [in Learning phase right now]

  8. Dancing [very rarely]

  9. Rarely Partying & Socializing but whenever I do it, I AM 100% IN IT - This is the last thing I will be found doing as of now

  10. I can communicate, talk, or listen patiently for hours - on any of the topics mentioned on this page

7. Mentoring:

• 1. Public Speaking - Have conducted lectures / seminars / workshops etc. at colleges & corporates. Have spoken at summits / conferences / meetups

  2. Co-authoring a book on 'Personality, Career, Business & Relationships Management'

  3. Have founded/run a knowledge sharing Club in past: Open Oxygen of Options

  4. Counseling - I counsel on teen-&-youth issues, pre-marriage issues, post-marriage issues, career issues. I have practiced with an established psychiatrist cum counselor in past.

  5. Doing Social-work. I run my own registered NGO Help Foundation Society and am also a part of many other NGOs like Asha, Jan Pratibimb, Goonj etc.

Indians who constitute the I in me

5 Indians who constituted me:

Chanakya Vishnu Gupta, Krishna [author of Srimad Bhagavad Gita, King of Dwarka], Swami Vivekanand, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

5 Indians I follow & admire today:

Subramanian Swamy, Major General Gagandeep Bakshi, RSN Singh (ex-RAW), Major Gaurav Arya, Ajit Kumar Doval (IPS, ex-Spy, Current NSA to the Prime Minister of India)

Other Indians who give me inspiration:

Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Technocrats, Artists:: Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, K.R. Sridhar, Nikesh Arora, Sabeer Bhatia, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Vinod Dham, Vinod Khosla, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Richard Menon, Rajat Sharma, Tarun Tejpal, Prannoy Roy, Prasoon Joshi, Ankit Fadia, Dhiru Bhai Ambani, Mukesh Ambani, N R Narayan Murthy, Kishore Biyani, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, JRD Tata, Ratan Tata, Captain G R Gopinath, Vijay Mallya (obviously, not because he ran away with our money), Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Osho (not for what he taught), Shiv Khera, Binny & Sachin Bansal, Mukesh Bansal, Anurag Kashyap, Satyajit Ray, Sampoorna Singh Gulzar, AR Rehman, Jagjit Singh, Vishal Bharadwaj, Roman Saini, Shifuji Shaurya Bhardwaj, Balaji Viswanathan, Arnab Goswami, Devdutt Patnaik, Rahul Yadav (Housing.com ex-CEO), Tanmay Bakshi, Sandeep Maheshwari, Jaggi Vasudev, Dr. Vivek Bindra, Bhuvan Bam,

Politicians:: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narendra Modi, Balasaheb Thakrey,

Ancient kings of the Indian subcontinent:: Chandragupta Maurya [Maurya Empire], Chandra Gupta II Vikramaditya the Great [Gupta empire], Samudra Gupta the Great [Gupta empire], Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonsle the Great [Maratha Empire], Kanishka the Great [Kushan Empire], Deva Pala the Great [Pala Empire], Rajendra Chola the Great [Chola Empire]

Freedom fighters & Social activists & Historians:: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Anna Hazaare, Sandeep Pandey, Rajiv Dixit, Pushpendra Kulshrestha, Yatinarsinghanand Sarswati, Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta, Anuj Dhar, Ram Punyani, Trailokyanath Chakravarty, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Rajiv Malhotra, Purushottam Nagesh Oak, Nilesh Nilkanth Oak, Christopher Charles Doyle,

Prominent sports figures:: Viswanathan Anand, Dhyan Chand, Dhanraj Pillay, Vijay Amritraj, Mahesh Bhupati, Leander Paes, Narain Karthikeyan, Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, Jeev Milkha Singh, Jyoti Randhawa, Arjun Atwal, entire Indian Hockey team, Sourav Ganguly, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, The Great Khali, Baichung Bhutia

I wanna say something

First thing you will notice about me: that I am FRIENDLY & also a great Listener

My idea of a perfect first date: one that lasts for ETERNITY and even Beyond

My say on Relationships: it is only YOU who have to save, grow n prosper your relationship in any Goddamned situation. No one else gives a SHIT about the same.

Few Things I can't live without: Perpetual Love, Hard Work, Money, Air, Water

No....., Important Info

Languages i speak & write excellently: English (US), English (UK), Hindi

Languages i understand partially: Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic, Haryanvi, Sanakrit

I have no reservations ! But my favorites::

Cuisines = Khichdi & Milk Dalia. I love home-cooked food, I usually don't eat out & I hate junk food.

Fruits = Grapes & Apples

Vegetables = Bitter Melon

Desserts = Imarti, Jalebi, Rabri

Animals & Birds = Lion, Eagle, Horse, Snake, Elephant, Parrot, Octopus,

Sports =

I love to play Chess, Carrom, Table Tennis, Badminton, Fussball, Cards, Skating & some other strategy based board games. I love to watch, but usually I don't have time to follow them:

1) Lawn Tennis - Singles/Doubles

2) Cricket - 20/20, 1days & test - all geners

3) Gymnastics & Ice Scating

Cinema = click here to discover

Authors & Poets = click here to uncover

Television = click here to discover