Draft:Nitish Rajput

Nitish Rajput (born 8 October 1994) is an Indian YouTuber, social media activist and author. He is known for his YouTube videos on social, political, and environmental issues. As of July 2024, he has about 5.9 million subscribers across all channels and 1.036 billion total video views. He was awarded the RNG Awards for political reporting in 2022.

Early life
Nitish was born in Sultanpur, U.P. He received his primary education from Uttarakhand. He holds a bachelor's degree in IT Engineering.

Career
Nitish is known for his political and social videos, which mainly contain fact-checking and explaining complex sensitive topics in a simple way. He started uploading videos during Covid - 19 lockdown. In 2020 his video about the Indian Education system which was based on the effect of Lord Macaulay's education policy in British India and ground level problems faced by farmers in the farm laws went viral and received significant media coverage.

He was misidentified as IPS officer Shailja Kant Mishra by a writer Harinder S. Sikka the author of calling sehmat while speaking about the criminalization of Indian politics in his YouTube video. One of another video about Pakistan got notice from India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting after which they inform him to trim parts where the wrong map was used.

He is the Author of ‘’The Broken Fourth Pillar’’ and “The Broken Pillars of Democracy” with the latter becoming an Amazon best seller.