ANSHUL TEWARI

Anshul Tewari is a social entrepreneur who has founded Youth Ki Awaaz, one of India’s few online platforms dedicated towards bringing forward the voice of the youth. A student of Journalism at Delhi University, Anshul launched Youth Ki Awaaz in March 2008 as a vent to his opinions and views about social and political issues.

As months passed, Youth Ki Awaaz developed. Today it has around 45 registered and around 100 unregistered writers and contributors globally, and over a thousand regular readers.

Youth Ki Awaaz also boasts of launching HOPE, India’s first ever social network dedicated towards the cause of social change and development; and a few of India’s most comprehensive online campaigns on issues like drug abuse, child abuse and rural development, in collaboration with NGO’s like Foundation for a Drug-Free World and Global March Against Child Labour.

Earlier in 2009, Youth Ki Awaaz was ranked 3rd amongst the blogs with the most comprehensive Lok Sabha election coverage by BlogAdda.com, a subsidiary of BigAdda.com.

Anshul has also interviewed prominent personalities like Mallika Sarabhai, 2009 Lok Sabha contestant from Gandhinagar, Raghu Ram and Rajiv Lakshman, the popular duo from MTV Roadies.

Anshul Tewari has also worked with the Indian Express and the Financial Express newspapers, and his startup has often been featured in the media, which include Ode, an international magazine, Times of India, Zee News, DNA, IndiaInfo.com, VoteReportIndia.com, etc.