Sapan Saxena

Sapan Saxena (born April 5, 1985) is an Indian author, best known for his novels Finders, Keepers published by Leadstart Publishing. and UNNS-The Captivation

Saxena was born on April 5, 1985 at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. His father, Umesh, is a senior bank officer with UCO Bank. He did his Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

Saxena started writing blogs in the year 2011 and his blog was covered by national mainstream media outlets like The Times of India on a couple of occasions.

Saxena then started working on his novel Finders, Keepers which was launched in January 2015 at Bhubaneshwar. The launch as covered by The New Indian Express and was attended by Padma Shri Prafulla Kar and eminent novelist Santanu Kumar Acharya and noted ghazal singer Subhashish Panigrahi.

The book had another launch at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology during the National level cultural festival of the college, Culrav which was attended by Shri Girdhar Malviya.

The Delhi launch of the book was attended by Bharatiya Janta Party MP from Meerut, Shri Rajendra Agarwal. The Hindu covered the book in its Friday Fever section.

The book received mostly positive reviews from eminent journalists and reviewers

Samata Dey from IndiaCafe said "Sapan offered a very interesting story, where not only the plot but the atmosphere and the scenario the plot is based in, becomes the primal focus too. Some simple yet very confusing questions are asked in the different parts of the book which are related to the famous historical figures which is mind boggling".

In March 2016, Saxena did a homemade rendition of Shah Rukh Khan's then yet to be released movie Fan. The video was released on his Youtube account and was immediately picked up by various media portals

The video was very well received across social media platforms and Shah Rukh Khan used his official Twitter account in praise of the video.

Saxena's 2nd novel's launch was covered by Chandigarh chapter of Indian Express and Dainik Bhaskar . UNNS- The Captivation is published by Inspire India publishers.

Saxena mentions "The book is a romantic espionage thriller with a basic theme of the Sufi-inspired seven stages of love" when asked about the book. He also mentions the title UNNS is actually the 2nd stage of love as per Sufi traditions.