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'''Arun Katiyar''' is a media veteran with three decades of professional experience. He has worked as journalist and editor with the [[India Today]] Group.

Arun was the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the [[India Today]] Group's<ref>
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|url=http://www.afaqs.com/interviews/index.html?id=207_Success-in-one-business-does-not-automatically-lead-to-success-on-the-Net
|title=Success in one business does not automatically lead to success on the Net
|date=2001-01-11
|accessdate=2010-10-27
|publisher=Agencyfaqs
}}
</ref> online venture and was instrumental in setting up their online global [[Web syndication|syndication]] business. He later moved on to become the station director for the country's first 24-hour private FM radio station, [[Radio City (Indian radio station)]]<ref>

{{cite web
|url=http://www.exchange4media.com/11631_former-radio-city-arun-katiyar-joins-microland.html
|title=Former Radio City Arun Katiyar joins Microland
|date=2004-04-14
|accessdate=2010-05-22
|publisher=Exchange4Media
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154227/http://www.exchange4media.com/11631_former-radio-city-arun-katiyar-joins-microland.html
|archivedate=2 April 2015
}}
</ref>
and then became Vice President, Operations, of [[Microland]]'s technical support business. In 2005 he led a start up as CEO called SEraja<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/05/19/stories/2006051900910400.htm
|title=Seraja plans mobile alerts on city events
|date=2006-05-19
|accessdate=2010-05-24
|publisher=The Hindu Business Line
}}
</ref>
funded by entrepreneur Rajesh Jain that addressed the media-centric management of events using the Internet and mobile phones. [[Esther Dyson]]'s Quarterly Report on digital technology, Release 1.0, described SEraja as "perhaps the most ambitious events project"<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/r1/12-05.pdf
|title=Esther Dyson's Quarterly Report Release 1.0, Volume 24, No 2, December 2005
|date=2005-12-01
|accessdate=2010-05-24
|publisher=Esther Dyson
}}
</ref>
they had come across. SE raja was the brainchild of [[Ramesh Jain]], Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the [[University of California, Irvine]] and the founder of [[IEEE MultiMedia]]. SE raja failed to create the ambitious EventWeb it had set out to build. In 2007, the project had to be shut down. Arun continues to pursue his interest in researching and writing about technology. He was part of the research and documentation team of the Karnataka Information and Technology Group 2020 (KIG 2020) constituted by the [[Government of Karnataka]], [[India]], in 2012 whose objective was to provide recommendations refocusing the state's goals in information technology.<ref>

{{cite web
|url = http://www.bangaloreitbt.in/docs/2013/1/KIG%202020%20final%20report.pdf
|title = Karnataka Information Communication Technology Group 2012 Report
|date = 2013-01-08
|accessdate = 2013-08-11
|publisher = KIG 2020
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130324172518/http://www.bangaloreitbt.in/docs/2013/1/KIG%202020%20final%20report.pdf
|archivedate = 24 March 2013}}
</ref>

Arun has produced a rock album for [[CBS]] and has authored a book for [[Harper Collins]] Publishers—Bombay A Contemporary Account of Mumbai.<ref>

{{cite web
|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/book-review-n-bhojani-a-katiyar-bombay-a-contemporary-account/1/282391.html
|title=Skyscrapers and slums. Book review: N. Bhojani and A. Katiyar's 'Bombay: A Contemporary Account' by Manjula Padmanabhan
|date=1996-09-30
|accessdate=2013-08-07
|publisher=India Today Group
}}
</ref>
He attended [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]] from 1977 to 1981 and was listed under "Alumni of Distinction from St Xavier's College, Bombay"<ref>

{{cite web
|url=http://www.xaviers.edu/stxaviersalumni/Alumni.pdf
|title=Some of our important Alumni (St. Xavier's Alumni/ae of Distinction)
|date=2006-04-03
|accessdate=2012-08-29
|publisher=Xavier's Development Project Consultants Emily Andrade and Andrea Quadros
}}
</ref>
in 2006.

Amongst the personal interests that Arun has pursued is cycling. He was part of the team that created the non-competitive 800-km bicycling event<ref>

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|url=http://epaper.dnaindia.com/EpaperImages//bangalore//21122012//20bnente-pg4-0.pdf
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191611/http://epaper.dnaindia.com/EpaperImages//bangalore//21122012//20bnente-pg4-0.pdf
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2016-03-04
|title=A Spin Through the Blue Hills
|date=2012-12-21
|accessdate=2012-12-21
|publisher=DNA
}}
</ref>
called the [[Tour of Nilgiris]] in 2008.<ref>

{{cite web
|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pedalling-upvalue-chain/353840/
|title=Pedalling up the value chain
|date=2009-04-03
|accessdate=2010-05-24
|work=Business Standard}}
</ref><ref>

{{cite web
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI_yv3W6AAA
|title=Cycling: Arun Katiyar at TEDxNMIMSBangalore
|date=2013-04-08
|accessdate=2018-12-10
|publisher=TED
}}
</ref>

He continues to write for a variety of publications and has been invited by UN Habitat to present his thinking in the area of urbanization and the environment.<ref>

{{cite web
|url=http://www.fukuoka.unhabitat.org/kcap/activities/acjc/2011_en.html
|title=The 5th Asian City Journalist Conference, Urbanization Problems in Asia ~ Improving Living Environment and Natural Environment, organized by the UN-HABITAT Fukuoka Office and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism , Government of Japan.
|date=2011-01-13
|accessdate=2011-03-21
|publisher=KCAP, UN-Habitat
}}
</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.rediff.com/travel/1996/1011kat.htm Extract from "Bombay - A Contemporary Account of Mumbai" by Namas Bhojani and Arun Katiyar, Harper Collins, 1996]
*[http://www.shanghaidaily.com/Opinion/shanghai-daily-columnists/Hard-truths-and-choices-of-Asias-urbanization-explored-in-Japan-meet/shdaily.shtml Noted by Shanghai Daily for presentation at conference organized by the UN-HABITAT Japan office to discuss problems of deteriorating environment caused by urbanization, 19 January, 2011]
*[http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/arun-katiyar Directory of column for DNA newspaper, 2009-2011]
*[http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/arun%20katiyar Directory of contributions to Mint & The Wall Street Journal]
*[http://www.own-it.org/london/search?q=arun+katiyar Directory of contributions to Own-It/ University of the Arts London]

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