Shyam Parekh

Editor and Senior

Journalist

Director, Gujarat Literature Festival

| Media Educator,

Book Writer |

Trainer & Consultant |

My current involvements

Gujarat Literature Festival

Founder and Director

Kakko Media LLP

Director

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Rajendra Prasad Institute of Communication and Management

Director

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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Harilal Bhagwati Institute of Communication and Management

Director

Smt Sheni Memorial Charitable Trust

Managing Trustee

An Overview

has been my calling. Writing, editing, recruitment, training, and designing media products and publications emerged as a natural progression in its pursuit. Media education and training of media personnel followed, expanding to include training government officials, spokespersons, communication officers, Public Relations personnel, and at times, CEOs and founders from the corporate sector.

Journalism

I write and edit in both English and Gujarati. My passion for literature led me to found Gujarat's first, largest, and most popular litfest - the Gujarat Literature Festival (GLF). The festival, which started in 2014, soon established itself as the most popular literary and cultural event in Gujarat and continues to grow.

I grew up as a wanderer, trekking and hiking in the valleys and peaks of the Himalayas at the most interesting places. I cherish the sheer joy of discovering every inch of the world we live in through my travels. I get easily consumed by content in all mediums, particularly those dealing with futurology, election analyses, science fiction, and technology research news.

Care for animals and birds runs in my blood, and I also offer my services as a managing trustee of Smt Sheni Memorial Charitable Trust, Rajkot, which runs a special bird shelter and hospital, in addition to a facility for animals.

Recognitions

I was invited by the US government for a Presidential Campaign tour to cover the First Presidential Debate between President Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney in Denver on November 3, 2012.

I represented my newspaper at the WAN-IFRA summit in Vienna in October 2011. I made a presentation at the Global Editors’ Network (GEN) Summit on innovations made by my paper to buck the trend of readership loss at the world’s largest media gathering, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA).

My reporting on water issues won me the World Water Competition for Journalists in 2003, and I was invited to participate at the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan.

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I was a member of the official delegation of India, accompanying the Prime Minister on official visits abroad - China in January 2008, followed by Ethiopia and Tanzania in May 2010.