Som Patidar

Writer is a journalist and political researcher based in New Delhi. Currently, he is working with a foreign media group. In five years of journalism, he has worked for variety of media organizations, from local Hindi daily to global media.

In research, he has produced a research paper on ‘Royal Families in Contemporary Indian Politics’ as Parliamentary Fellow at Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (ICPS), an institute of Indian Parliament.

He also helps parliamentarians in performing their jobs more efficiently by providing research input and field studies as per their requirements.

Apart from this life sketch of great freedom fighter and noted parliamentarian, Late Sheel Bhadra Yajee, he is also working on life profile of freedom fighter and noted Congressman Late Chaudhary Ranbir Singh for All India Freedom Fighters Organization (AIFFO) and All India Freedom Fighters’ Successors’ Organization (AIFFSO).

He has conceptualized the all India online directory of Freedom Fighters and their successors. He is working on this project with the support AIFFO and AIFFSO.

He is a Lifetime Member of the Institute of Constitutional & Parliamentary Studies (ICPS) and Vice President of non-for-profit Citizen Research Foundation.

His citizen media project, ‘Khula Asma’ (Open Sky), designed for betterment of prisoners, nominated for USA’s prestigious Knight News Challenge-2008 and he won best citizen journalist award by Oakland (USA) based Citizen Journalism Initiative, iTalknews, in 2005.