Raghav Mimani

Poet and Author

Raghav Mimani treats identity as a verb, not a noun. A BITS Pilani graduate and a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University, he founded Irikoy Ventures, where his latest project, KARMA — a board game he designed and built from scratch — is launching soon. He serves as a Major in the Indian Territorial Army, with his battalion currently posted in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He is the founder and Lead Trustee of Nityashree Foundation, a public charitable trust, and built Azad Reads into a 4,000-member youth community in Prayagraj, Lucknow, Banaras, and growing. He also writes Hindi prose poetry; his debut collection, Ek Arsa Ho Gaya Khud Se Bhi Mile Hue, was released with Vani Prakashan this October 2026.