Gotham Chopra

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Gotham Chopra (born Gautama Chopra on February 23, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an author and entertainment/media entrepreneur. He is the son of bestselling author Deepak Chopra.

He started his career as a correspondent and news anchor for Channel One News, a short television program shown in selected high schools throughout the United States, and went on to host the program 'Current Soul' for Current TV. In 2002, he published an account of his travels and interviews entitled Familiar Strangers: Uncommon Wisdom in Unlikely Places with Doubleday. He was story editor for the comic book Bulletproof Monk and executive producer for the 2003 film adaptation starring Chow Yun Fat. His first book, Child of the Dawn, a parable based on the principles of his father's highly successful book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, was published in 1996, and written while Chopra was still an undergraduate college student at Columbia University.

Around the time he began his career at Channel One News, Chopra changed the spelling of his first name from the traditional "Gautama," which evokes the ancient spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism, to "Gotham," a nickname for New York City and later appropriated as the fictional setting of the Batman comic book series. Chopra has said in interviews that he changed his name because "Gotham" sounds more hip and that he was tired of "Gautama" being mispronounced in the United States.[1] The pronunciation of both versions is very close.

Gotham is a partner in Chopra Media, with his sister, Mallika Chopra. Together they have launched IntentBlog and Virgin Comics. Gotham now serves as Chief Creative Officer for Virgin Comics which is based in Bangalore, India.

In the March 2004 edition of Newsweek Magazine, he was identified as one of the "most powerful and influential" South Asians worth watching.