Darshan Chokhani

About

Born in Kolkata, I have completed my PG Diploma in Sports Management from IISWBM under Calcutta University. I completed my schooling in 2010 from Don Bosco in Commerce and my Graduation in 2013 from Bhawanipur College in Accounts & Commerce.Currently, I work a freelance writer and PR specialising in motorsport. My clients include Red Bull India, Sports Flashes, The Citizen, Firstpost, Sportstar, FormulaRapida, Drivetribe. I am FIA Accredited, having covered F1 and WEC in person.I worked as news editor for Motorsport.com - Global and the Indian site. My work included traveling to races India and international for reporting and also desk work. I wrote on various series including F1, MotoGP, WEC, WRC and more to junior series F2/GP2, GP3, European F3 and more.I am also a co-partner of Auto India Sports, an Indian motorsport portal covering all the Indian drivers and Indian teams racing abroad. I have been writing and managing the Facebook page since June 2011.Previously, worked as an Intern for Sahara Force India F1 Team's India office in the Marketing & Sponsorship department involved in planning, research, college activation program negotiations and filing of report. Also, assisted in the planning of the PR work of the team for the 2014 season.Apart from assisting the Indian Grand Prix's PR with the official Grand Prix's Facebook & Twitter page, I was also selected as an all-India winner to spend time with Marussia F1 Team's PR department during 2012 Indian GP and live tweet my experience from the venue. I also had the opportunity to record a podcast with Pirelli Motorsport Director Mr. Paul Hembrey during 2013 Indian GP.I have also worked for Zee Entertainment Enterprises' tensports.com and criclife.com; the former website relates to Ten Network while the later deals with featured based content on cricket. For Ten Sports, I worked on the CMS while for Criclife, worked on WordPress. For Criclife, I also managed the various social media accounts.