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CONTENT

INTRODUCTION 2

RGMRG GROUP 6

RISING AUTHOR 11

AARSH PUBLICATION 19

AN AUCTION BIDDER 23

ACHIEVEMENTS 25

FUTURE VISION 26

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ROHIT GUPTA

INTRODUCTION Rohit Gupta (January 23, 1987) is an Indian Entrepreneur and Author. He is founder of the RGMRG Group (2014) and Aarsh Publication (2019). Rohit was born in Dinanagar (Punjab) and raised in Nurpur (Himachal Pradesh). He moved to Jalandhar (Punjab) after Graduation for pursuing his MBA (Finance) in 2007 and then New Delhi for PG in Banking in 2010. He joined ICICI Bank in August 2010 as a part of Retail branch banking. While working with ICICI Bank, he conceived the idea of starting his own venture, meanwhile got an offer from IndusInd Bank. He joined IndusInd Bank in February 2014 but realized that he wanted to expand his business ideas. Hence, he left the banking sector and officially launched the RGMRG Group. Since then his company has been doing a profitable business in investments and finance. As a part of his work, he went on a number of national and international trips. His trip to Europe forced him to enter the field of writing as he was keen on penning down all his experiences and

ROHIT GUPTA

Born: January 23, 1987, Dinanagar (Punjab), India.

Residence: New Delhi, India.

Spouse: Medha Tyagi (M. 2014)

Occupation: Entrepreneur and Author

Education:

1. MBA (Finance)

2. Master of Financial Risk Management

3. PG in Banking

4. Bachelor’s in law

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memories. So came his first book “LIVE, LAUGH AND TRAVEL- EUROPE”, and then there was no looking back. He wrote books on his knowledge of finance and investments, his interests on topics like – “MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH”, “THE SILK ROAD” etc. With this, he now has his own Publication house by the name of Aarsh Publication.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Rohit Gupta was born on 23 January 1987, in Dinanagar (Punjab), to Nirmal Gupta and Vijay Gupta. His father worked in Himachal Pradesh Education Department and retired in 2018 as the Principal of Govt. Senior Secondary School. He has a younger brother Mohit Gupta, who is currently settled in New Zealand. He completed his schooling and graduation (B.Com) from Himachal Pradesh, then moved to Jalandhar for completing Master of Business Administration in 2007. After completion of his MBA, he moved to New Delhi for pursuing a PG in Banking and then joined ICICI Bank to start his banking career. He also completed Bachelor’s in Law and Master’s in Financial Risk Management in next four years.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• ICICI Bank (2010-2014)

Rohit joined ICICI Bank’s Retail Branch Banking in August 2010. He joined a branch in Delhi and learnt banking under the mentorship of Mr. Akshay Marwah, Mr. Sanjeev Jha, Late Mr. Mohd. Mohsin Khan and Mr. Rakesh Raman. He worked there at many profiles and learnt most of the aspects of branch banking.

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• IndusInd Bank (2014)

Rohit joined IndusInd Bank in February 2014. He joined a branch in Noida. He worked under Mr. Manish Kalhan and Mr. Hitesh Arora. He worked there for a short period and then left before he officially launched his own venture.

• RGMRG Group (2014- Present)

RGMRG Group was originally just a composition of rough ideas about fields in which Rohit Gupta and his wife Medha Tyagi wanted to work together in late 2013. After complete research and with official documentation done, RGMRG Group was launched in July 2014 with four different segments -Travel, Loan assistance, Real Estate assistance and Manpower supply. Later in 2014 Financial Investment segment was added in RGMRG Group and Loan assistance and Manpower supply was removed. There were some changes made later according to profitability and efficiency up to till date but main segment of RGMRG Group as of now since last 5 years is Financial investment planning or Fund management. RGMRG Group is in profitability since its launch and getting great response from its clients.

• Auction Bidder (2017- Present)

Rohit is a historical economist and he holds good knowledge of North-East Asia, South-West Asia and North-West Europe in terms of geographical, political, economic and historical way. He has taken part in many online and offline auctions of different kinds of antiques especially of period between 6th century to 13th century.

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• Author and Publisher (2018- Present)

Rohit’s nature of work makes him travel quite often and also; he loves exploring the international market. This lets him realize his and his wife’s passion of travelling. He has written his first book for his son after their Europe trip named “Live, Laugh and Travel- Europe”. This book is sold in 26 countries (Minimum one copy). After that, he has written more books, some of them connected to his work and others related to his interest. One of his books named “Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church-Everything about Indian Orthodox church” is one of the best seller books on Amazon India in Christian’s book category. He has written and published Eight books till date. He also runs a publication house with name “Aarsh Publication” for promoting new authors. He has published seven books under his publication of other authors.

PERSONAL LIFE Rohit live in New Delhi, India. He is married to Medha Tyagi. Medha is an experienced banker and a Travel blogger. Couple has two kids named Aarsh and Ivaan.

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RGMRG GROUP RGMRG Group is an Indian business firm based in New Delhi. It was founded by Rohit Gupta in 2014. The Group was launched in July 2014 with four different segments - Travel, Loan assistance, Real Estate assistance and Manpower supply. Since incorporation, the Group has opened and closed many segments of working. Currently it deals in three main segments. Individually only one, rest two associates with specialized persons of their field looking after the same. Working Segments are :-

• RGMRG Finance : A financial investment company dealing in fund management and investments. It started its operation from September 2014 and in last 5 years it has touched great heights. Since inception, 12 funds have been launched by RGMRG Finance, out of which 4 are in running stage and rest 8 have completed their tenure.

RGMRG GROUP

Founded: 23rd July 2014, New Delhi, India.

Founder: Rohit Gupta

Headquarter: New Delhi, India

Area served: Asia and Europe

Products: Financial Investments, E-commerce and real estate assistance

International Office: Singapore

Website: www.rgmrg.com

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Current Funds Details:-

1. Auction-Equity Fund Part I

Period :- 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019 Fund Manager : Rohit Gupta Current status : Closed for investment

2. Auction-Equity Fund Part II

Period :- 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 Fund Manager : Rohit Gupta Current status : Closed for investment

3. IOPF-PMS Fund Period :- 1st July 2019 to 30st June 2022 Fund Manager : Rohit Gupta Current status : Open for investment

4. Auction-Equity Fund Part III Period :- 1st August 2019 to 31st July 2020 Fund Manager : Rohit Gupta Current status : Open for investment

Investment Areas:-

1. Equity

• Apple Inc (Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California).

• Accor S.A. using the brand name Accor Hotels, is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages

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and franchises hotels, resorts, and vacation properties. The group is headquartered in Paris.

• The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

2. Auction Houses

• Est-Ouest Auctions, (Harbour Rd, Gallery 2, ART ONE, M/F Convention Plaza, Wanchai, Hong Kong)

• Antiquorum Auctioneer Limited, 9 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong

• HotLotz Auction House, Cendex Centre #01-15, 120 Lower Delta Rd, Singapore

• Estuary Auctions, 2107 Addax Tower at the City of Lights, P.O. Box 33323 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

3. Real-Estate Projects

• Jubail II, Saudi Arabia - Jubail II Industrial Area is World's

Largest Civil Engineering Project. • 1, Bloor Street Mixed-Use Development (Mizrahi

Developments, Toronto Canada). • One Monte Carlo, Monaco (Designed by Sir Richard Rogers,

architect and urban planner (One Hyde Park, London), winner of

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the Pritzker Architecture Prize and associate of Monaco architect Alexandre Giraldi).

4. Lending

• Peer to Peer lending Companies I. Mintos – (Mintos, the Latvian fintech that operates a

global loans marketplace to let you invest in loans from various loan originators).

II. Funding Circle – (Funding Circle is a leading marketplace with a focus exclusively on small businesses in the U.S. and U.K.)

III. StreetShares, Inc. is a small business funding marketplace based outside of Washington, D.C.

• Lending to Start-up’s

Authorization taken from regulatory agencies :- NSE, BSE, Singapore Exchange, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, China securities and regulatory commission.

Working Platform and tie –ups:-

Banks Securities

Companies Assets management companies

HDFC Bank ICICI Securities Thomson Reuters ICICI Bank Halifax State Street Global

Advisors

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HSBC Bank TD Ameritrade Research Affiliates, LLC

Royal Bank of Scotland

Charles Schwab Principle Global Investors, LLC

Wells Fargo Guosen Securities Blackrock Authorized Agents:-

1. Mr. Surinder Paul Singh (India) 2. Ms. Megan Moses (Germany) 3. Mr. Thana Letchmei (Malaysia) 4. Mr. Lokender Shah (U.A.E) 5. Miss Jennica Noyons (Singapore)

• Real Estate Hub :

A Real Estate company working on FDI in real estate projects worldwide. It also works in the field of sale and purchase of property in India and overseas. In last five years, 18 FDI projects and 140 sale/purchase of properties have been completed under this company. This company is run by Rohit Gupta and Sunny Sharma.

• Himachal Mart :

An E-Commerce company which helps to sell local vendors of Himachal Pradesh their products worldwide since January 2016. It operates from Solan (Himachal Pradesh) and is run by Rohit Gupta and Deepak Kumar Verma.

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RISING AUTHOR In 2018, Rohit’s journey from banker to entrepreneur reached another level when he published his first book as author.

Because of his nature of work, he needed to research, explore and travel frequently pretty. So his first topic for his book was one of the trips - a family trip to Europe.

With his wife too putting in ideas, he completed this book and published with the title “Live, Laugh and Travel- Europe”. After success of 1st book, he wrote next two books on financial topics named “Peer to Peer Lending” and “Reward and Donation Crowdfunding”.

“Live, Laugh and Travel- Europe” and “Reward and Donation Crowdfunding” also featured in World Book Fair 2019, New Delhi.

In May 2019, Rohit published his most ambitious book “Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church- Everything about Indian Orthodox church”.

Pic. World Book fair 2019, New Delhi

First Book: “Live, Laugh and Travel - Europe”

Best Seller: “Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church- Everything about Indian Orthodox Church”

Number of Books Written: 8

Categories of Books: Travel Biography, Finance, Poetry, Religion and History.

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Soon, this book became the best seller book on Amazon India and later this book was officially accepted by Primate or Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II. After publishing four books, Rohit started his own publication house with name “Aarsh publication” and published next four book under his own publication-

• “Before Leaving My Childhood”- A poetry book • “The World of Hedge Fund” and “Investment Recipes” – Books

on Investment (Finance) • “The Silk Road” – Book on Historical Trade.

This book or we can say travel biography is basically a collection of memories of Rohit’s trip to Europe with his family. It is full of pictures of the places they visited with an apt description of each and every place mixed with his emotions and all the fun along with problems they faced. They covered places:

• THE HEAVEN ON EARTH -*ZURICH* • THE CITY OF ROMANCE - *PARIS* • ISLAND WITH WHITE BEACHES - *IBIZA* • THE CITY OF HERITAGE AND CULTURE -

*BARCELONA* • THE CITY WITH ARTISTIC HERITAGE,

MUSEUMS AND CANALS - *AMSTERDAM*

The description of their experiences with their infant kid is the most amazing thing about the book.

o This book is already sold in 26 countries and is still in demand specially in E-Book format.

o In May 2019, The book won the award for 3rd

highest selling book of the month by Notion Press Publications.

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The book provides an informative guide to Peer-to-Peer lending for both beginners as well as experienced investors. It mainly talks about the following: -

• What is Peer-to-Peer lending and how it can be used by all of us to borrow and invest money?

• What are the main advantages of Peer-to-Peer lending?

• How Peer-to-Peer Lending companies operate in different countries?

• The top Peer-to-Peer lending companies in the world and in India?

• What kind of RBI regulations are these Peer-to-Peer companies governed by?

The book is informative, apt details for both beginners and experienced Fundraisers. This book covers the basic idea of Reward Based Crowdfunding and Donation Based Crowdfunding. The main headlines of this book are:-

Reward-based crowdfunding: This type of Crowdfunding is also known as the non-equity way of funding your project. It has been widely used for funding campaigns like supporting a free development of software, promotion of motion pictures, aiding scientific research and development of inventions, etc. The people who are funding are hopeful of returns from the project. Donation-based Crowdfunding: The best example for this would be raising funds from individuals to support personal or social causes. Applications Of Crowdfunding

• Crowdfunding for personal & Individual Use • Crowdfunding for real estate • Crowdfunding for start-ups and running business.

• Crowdfunding loans

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The book is about Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, also known as the Indian Orthodox Church. It is an autocephalous Church centred in the Indian state of Kerala. It is one of the churches of India's Saint Thomas Christian community which has its origin in the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The church is headed by the autocephalous Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan, presently Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II. The main headlines of the book are:

• Origin of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. • History and Theology. • Liturgy and Practices. • Major figures. • List of all Churches under Malankara Orthodox

Syrian Church. • List of all Current and previous Metropolitans. • Saints of the Church. • Dioceses.

Q “Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church- Everything about Indian Orthodox

Church” book officially accepted by Catholicos of the East “Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II”.

Q This book is also praised and accepted by Metropolitans of Ahmadabad, Bombay and Delhi Dioceses.

Q This book is praised by Bishop of UK-Europe and Africa. Q Rohit Gupta is the first person who is from outside the Indian Orthodox

Church and written historical mini guide about them. Q This book covers the history of 1967 years of Malankara Orthodox Syrian

Church. Q There are already more than10000 copies sold worldwide of this book. Q This book was ranked #2 in category of Religions and best-selling books

in category of Christianity on Amazon India. Q This book was ranked # 12 in category of Orthodoxy on Amazon UK.

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Pics. : Rohit Gupta handing over his book to Catholicos of East

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"Before Leaving My Childhood" is a collection of poems about Childhood. This book is a tribute to cherished and treasured memories of life. The poems contained within are original and range from rhymed verse to free verse, with a few sonnets of good measure.

• It is a collection of 100 poems. • It is Rohit Gupta’s First poetry book. • It’s also First book published under “Aarsh

Publication”.

Hedge funds are among the most innovative and controversial of financial market institutions. Largely exempted from regulation and shrouded in secrecy, they are credited as having improved efficiency and add liquidity to financial markets, but also having severely destabilised markets following the Asian financial crisis and the near collapse of long-term capital management. Rohit Gupta presents a nuanced and balanced account to what is becoming an increasingly politicised and hysterical discussion of the subject.

• Part I explains the workings of hedge funds. • Part II focuses on the activities of macro hedge funds

and proprietary trading desks in East Asia in 2017 and 2018, with case study material from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

• Part III of the book looks at the future of hedge funds, their role for institutional investors, and policy proposals to limit their destabilising effects.

This book is a part of some of repudiated libraries of Hongkong, Singapore and China. This is the highest best-selling book of “Aarsh Publication”.

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This book is all about investments or funds that invests in asset classes other than stocks, bonds and cash. The term is a relatively loose one and includes tangible assets such as precious metals, art, wine, antiques, coins or stamps and some financial assets such as real estate, commodities, private equity, distressed-securities, hedge-funds, venture capital, film production, carbon credits, financial derivatives and crypto-currencies. This book is result of Rohit Gupta’s 10-year research and working experience in financial sector and investment segment. The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BC to the 18th century. The book talks of:-

• The Silk Road primarily refers to the land routes connecting

f East-Asia, South-east Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe.

• The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty in China (207 BCE–220 CE). The Han dynasty expanded the Central Asian section of the trade routes around 114 BCE through the missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy Zhang Qian, as well as several military conquests. The Chinese took great interest in the security of their trade products, and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the trade route.

• The Silk Road trade played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, the Indian subcontinent , Iran, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between the civilizations along its network.

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Upcoming Project

Though silk was the major trade item exported from China, many other goods and ideas were exchanged, including religions (especially Buddhism), syncretic philosophies, sciences, and technologies like paper and gunpowder. So in addition to economic trade, the Silk Road was a route for cultural trade among the civilizations

Druidism, is a modern spiritual or religious movement that generally promotes harmony, connection, and reverence for the natural world. This commonly is extended to include respect for all beings, including the environment itself. Many forms of modern Druidry are modern Pagan religions, although most of the earliest modern Druids identified as Christians. Originating in Britain during the 18th century, Druidry was originally a cultural movement, only gaining religious or spiritual connotations in the 19th century. This book cover the details about ancient way of spiritual rituals and modern way of spiritual rituals together and show the similarities, differences and faith of both type of druidism.

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AARSH PUBLICATION

Aarsh Publication is a self-publishing company based in New Delhi, India. It was founded by Rohit Gupta in June, 2019. The Publication house focuses on publishing, book printing and distribution options to authors from around the world. Since inception it has published 11 books and sold world-wide. Aarsh Publication has tie-ups with Amazon worldwide for online distribution and National Libraries of Asian and some of European countries. List of Books Published under Aarsh Publication :- Author and Publisher :- Rohit Gupta

1. Before Leaving My Childhood (Poetry)

2. The World of Hedge Fund (Finance)

3. Investment Recipes (Finance) 4. The Silk Road (History)

First Book: “Before Leaving My Childhood”

Number of Books Published: 11

Best Sellers:

1. “The World of Hedge Fund” by Rohit Gupta and “Love of the Times” by Infiniti Writers (Paperback)

2. I Count the Moment by Mahak Mehra (E-Book)

Categories of Books:

Finance, Poetry, History, Story and Anthology.

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Books of other authors :-

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Upcoming Project:-

Highlights

1. Aarsh Publication has launched four new authors. 2. Book Title “Love of the Times” was highest selling online paperback

book. 3. Book Title “The World of Hedge Funds” was highest selling offline

paperback book. 4. Book Title “I Count the Moments” was Ranked # 4 in Amazon India (E-

book) in poetry category and was Ranked #1 as Debut author in September 2019.

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AN AUCTION BIDDER

History and Economics both are the important part of a human’s life and Rohit has interest in both of them. So he started learning about auctions of historical items and slowly converted it as a part of his business.

Courses done before and during working as auction bidder:-

1. Designation Pre-requisite Course from National Auctioneers Association (NAA).

2. Short term course on “Art- Finance in a Global Market” (Sotheby’s Institute of art, Hongkong)

3. E-Course from American Auction Academy.

Genre of Auction

Antiques and collectibles auctions

An antique is usually an item that is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human history. Auction House’s

• Est-Ouest Auctions, (Hong Kong)

• Antiquorum Auctioneer Limited, (Hong Kong)

• HotLotz Auction House, (Singapore)

• Estuary Auctions, (Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates)

First Auction: April 2017

Participate in total Number of Auctions (Online and offline):

55

Expertise Genre:

Antiques (6th – 13th century)

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• Heritage Auctions (USA)

• Private Auctioneers

Notable Bidding

] Chenla-era statue of Buddha (612 AD- 823AD), Cambodia ] Statues belonging to Geyuan Temple Wenshu Hall (built in 966), Mongolia ] Statue of Zhao Kuangyin, also known as Emperor Taizu of Song, founder of

the Song dynasty, Mongolia ] Swords, coins and armours belongs to Kublai Khan (Grandson of Genghis

Khan), Mongolia

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ACHIEVEMENTS • Started RGMRG Group with capital of 6 lacs in 2014 and after 5 years its

turnover has touched 20 to 25 times. • Written and Published 8 books in the span of 10 months. • 2 out of 8 books sold in more than 20 countries worldwide. • Book Titled “Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church- Everything about Indian

Orthodox Church” has become best seller book in category of Christianity in July 2019.

• Interview taken by George Alexander (Co-founder and Secretary of Orthodoxy Cognate Page) and published on website www.theorthodoxchurch.info on 23rd July 2019, Also publish In the magazine “Youth Vision”- August 2019 and in “Georgian Mirror” – (July- September 2019).

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FUTURE VISION • Introduce more innovative ideas in Aarsh Publication to make it a more

comfortable and economical publishing platform for authors. • Launch new authors with quality content. • Open Stationery Store , Book café and Play School for under-privilege kids in

Delhi (India), Dubai (U.A.E) and Tallinn (Estonia). • Launch a Unique and Heritage Auction House in India with Specialization in

Antiques. • Start a Hedge Fund company in association with some experienced fund

managers from Singapore and Europe.

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His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II (Catholicos on the Apostolic Throne of St. Thomas and Malankara Metropolitan) congratulated author Rohit Gupta for publishing his book ‘Malankara Orthodox Church – Everything About the Indian Orthodox Church’. (28th July 2019 at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in Delhi). Catholicos commented that Rohit’s effort is remarkable. The Primate of the Malankara Church also extended a personal invitation to the author to visit Malankara (State of Kerala), which was graciously accepted by Rohit. Rohit was a special invitee for the ceremony 2019 Paulose Mar Gregorious Award. The author also met Metropolitan Demetrios of Delhi, Fr. Dr. K M George, Fr. Bijeesh Philip, and many other dignitaries.

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A delegation (George Alexander- Secretary, Donn George- First Editor of Malankara Affairs, Linto Paul- Second Editor of Affairs) of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE (Pan-Orthodox Society) Honours Author Rohit Gupta in Delhi (04/09/2019) The delegation congratulated Rohit for his outstanding efforts on publishing the book’ Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church-Everything About the Indian Orthodox Church’. They discussed in detail on the antiquity of the Malankara Church and Malankara Nasranis.

The delegation honored Rohit with the Icon of Jesus Christ the Pontacator (written by Anca Costenco – OCP Delegate of Bucharest and All Romania).

The delegation also presented Rohit with copies of ‘Charition Greek Drama and the Christians of Kerala’ and the first part of the ‘Western Rites of Syriac Malankara Orthodox Churches’.

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The Catholicos Baselious Paulose II officially released the book by receiving a copy from Rohit Gupta. The Catholicos honoured the author with a special shawl for his efforts. Catholicos and the Prelates lauded the terrific effort of Rohit Gupta. The faithful were detailed on Gupta’s profile, his efforts and his special relationship with the Indian Orthodox Malankara Church. Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Coorilos and Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Yulios were present for the occasion. Rohit Gupta also met Fr. Dr Jossi Jacob – the new Principal of the St. Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary, Nagpur and the Chief of Centre for Orthodox Studies of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society. The book launch event took place as part of the consecration ceremony of North India’s first Orthodox retreat, research centre-cum-chapel at Abu Road, Rajasthan, on 11th Sept 2019. Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Coorilos of Bombay, and Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Yulios of Ahmadabad were co-celebrants. Several priests and a large number of faithful attended the ceremony.