Colonel M V Shashidhar, Retd is a military veteran with decades of frontline command experience, an Independent Director (IICA), ESG and Governance Advocate, and a widely published strategic affairs analyst whose works appear regularly in Indian Masterminds, Deccan Herald, DT Next, Money Control and leading defence and governance platforms. He writes with a commander's clarity and a strategist's conviction bridging the battle room, the boardroom and the sports field bringing to every subject the hard-won wisdom of a soldier, the rigour of a governance professional and the competitive instinct of a lifelong sportsman. His work focuses on strategic affairs, governance, risk, and institutional leadership.