Kovid Gupta

Education

He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Arts.

Career

He is best known for his non-fiction books Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms and Redrawing India: The Teach Foreign India Story Kovid Gupta belongs to Houston, Texas." He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Cornell University. Before venturing into writing, Gupta worked at Teach Foreign India, followed by which he took up screenwriting full time for Indian television soap operas as an associate writer". As an author, Kovid has received mixed reviews on his books

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar of Business Standard wrote that "Unlike most book writers who tackle Indian television", Kovid "doesn"t come with the air of someone who thinks it is beneath him to comment on this (television).

His strengths are "his honest, non-judgemental look at the world of television soaps." “I disagree that we’re just here to entertain — if we’re not driving social change, we’re not (as screenwriters) doing our job!” " "We are on the cusp of an industry-wide renaissance!" " "Social messaging on television has to be done under the umbrella of mass television You have to have the fancy costumes, the melodrama and the tears in order to get people to watch the show.

Once they"re watching,you subliminally slip in your social messages If we can match mass appeal with the correct amount of social messaging we can actually create magic." " "When you see all the grave problems in the world, your problems seem so small in comparison." ".

Achievements

• He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of "India Kids", a nonprofit organization that empowers orphan children in India to reach their full potential." Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama wrote that "young first time author Kovid Gupta attempts something new by telling the tale of Ekta Kapoor" in his book Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms and that " this book turns out to be good affair indeed that aims at inspiring a reader to dream big and work hard towards accomplishing all of that despite the odds".

Views

Quotations: “I disagree that we’re just here to entertain — if we’re not driving social change, we’re not (as screenwriters) doing our job!” "

"We are on the cusp of an industry-wide renaissance!" "

"Social messaging on television has to be done under the umbrella of mass television You have to have the fancy costumes, the melodrama and the tears in order to get people to watch the show. Once they"re watching,you subliminally slip in your social messages If we can match mass appeal with the correct amount of social messaging we can actually create magic." "

"When you see all the grave problems in the world, your problems seem so small in comparison." ".