Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava started his career in 1974 from Bihar coinciding with the JP movement. His association with the Frontier Weekly edited by legendry Samar Sen saw him catapult as peoples? journalist committed to the cause of the dalit, downtrodden and poor in those days when journalists felt shy of identifying themselves with them. He belongs to the category of the journalists for whom journalism is not a step towards attaining elitism. He has acquired expertise on the agrarian economy, agrarian struggle and their socioeconomic impact. Of late he has switched over to the research. During his 35 year long stint in the profession he worked with various leading and national dailies. He has travelled widely in the regions of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh which witnessed emergence of Naxalite and later Maoist movements. He has five political books besides two poetry collections in Hindi to his credit.