Om Gupta is a man of trivia. Collecting interesting information for any probable use has been a passion with him since his school days. Being a mass communicator for 37 years, first as a journalist in print and electronic media and now in media academics, he has mines of unrelated but absorbing data bank that comes handy whenever a context arises. He has his writing published in 31 books in Hindi and English on media, diplomacy, tourism and his own creative writings.