Zeyan Shafiq
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| Zeyan Shafiq | |
|---|---|
| Born | Zeyan Jeelani Shafiq 21 July 2002 Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Radiant Public School |
| 💼 Occupation | Entrepreneur, Software and app developer |
| Known for | KashBook, Stalwart Esports |
| Title | CEO of Stalwart Esports [1] |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Shafiq Hassan (Father) Asiya Shafiq (Mother) |
Zeyan Shafiq (born Zeyan Jeelani; 21 July 2002) is an Indian entrepreneur, software and app developer from Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir ,India.[2] He launched KashBook in May 2017 after the Jammu and Kashmir government banned social media services in the Kashmir Valley.[3][4][5] KashBook was an Android app[6] that allowed users to access social media without circumventing the ban by connecting to a VPN and also allowed users to communicate in Kashmiri.[7] The Express Tribune described it as a "home-grown version of Facebook".[8]
The app was later shutdown due to disagreements between the founders.[9] Shafiq was labelled as the 'Mark Zuckerberg' of Kashmir.[10]
Shafiq started Stalwart Esports in 2020 to promote India in competitive esports.[11]
Personal life and education[edit]
Shafiq was born on 21 July 2002 to a Kashmiri Muslim family in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. His father, Shafiq Ul Hassan, is a software engineer,[12] and his mother, Asiya Shafiq, a civil servant in the Jammu and Kashmir revenue department.[13] He studied at the Army Goodwill School in Rajouri and completed his matriculation exams in January 2017 from the Radiant Public School.[14][15]
KashBook[edit]
In 2013, Shafiq (then 13) and Uzair Jan (then 17) built the first version of the KashBook website.[16][17] After the April 2017 ban on social media ban was imposed in Kashmir by the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party government, Shafiq and Jan realized that the old website was still in use and decided to relaunch it.[18][19] They developed a website and mobile app so that people in Kashmir could communicate without having to try to circumvent the ban by connecting to a VPN.[20][21] By 16 May 2017 KashBook had over 1,500 users, which had increased to over 10,500 users by 24 May 2017.[22] However, by August 2017, the KashBook website and app had ceased working due to disagreements between the founders.[23]
The book India Connected by Ravi Agrawal includes a chapter about Shafiq, the internet shutdown in Kashmir, and his take on it with KashBook.[24]
Stalwart Esports[edit]
In January 2020, Shafiq started Stalwart Esports, a pan-India esports organization to promote India’s position and participation in competitive eSports.[25][26] After the PUBG ban in India, he signed players from Pakistani team FreeStyle Esports, who already had qualified and played the PUBG World Championship.[27] He was concerned about reprisals, but none came. It was an unprecedented alliance between Indian and Pakistani gamers.[28]
Shafiq continued the cross-border collaboration with Freestyle owner Abdul Haseeb, together forming Stalwart Freestyle in December 2020.[29]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Founder & CEO- Stalwart Esports". Stalwart Esports. Retrieved 2021- 03-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ↑ Jameel, Yusuf (2017-05-21). "Social Bee: Valley's 'Internet kid' overcomes social media ban". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Nair, Nithya (2017-05-17). "KashBook, Kashmiri boy Zeyan Shafiq's Facebook circumvents social media ban in Valley". India News, Breaking News | India.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Bagchi, Suvojit (2017-06-24). "With Facebook banned, Kashmir's youth reach out via Kashbook". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Team, BS Web (2017-05-18). "Kashbook: Kashmiri teen's Facebook-lookalike beats social media ban". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Ahmed, Ali (2017-05-18). "Youth in IoK develops own Facebook to take-down India". Brecorder. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Anusha (2017-05-16). "Government bans social media, Kashmiri teen develops 'KashBook'". Oneindia. Retrieved 2021-03-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Teenagers in Indian-occupied Kashmir launch KashBook to fight social media ban". The Express Tribune. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Kashmir's social network KashBook is no more, and not because of the government". CatchNews.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Meet India's Zuckerberg: After Social Media Ban, 16 YO Launches 'Kashbook', Kashmir's Own FB!". Storypick. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "How the Indian Ban on PUBG Brought Gamers From India and Pakistan Together". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Meet Kashmir's own Mark Zuckerberg. He has created a social network in the valley where Facebook and Twitter are blocked". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Jameel, Yusuf (2017-05-21). "Social Bee: Valley's 'Internet kid' overcomes social media ban". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Aazadi and the Tractors". Greater Kashmir. 2017-11-29. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Kashmiri teen launches Facebook-like app, thwarting social media ban in Valley". The Indian Express. 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Kashmiri boy who created 'local Facebook' became a victim of a biased national media report". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "Kashmiri boy who created 'local Facebook' became a victim of a biased national media report". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Sanyal, Pathikrit (16 May 2017). social-media-clampdown/story/1/17219.html|access-date=25 February 2020}} "How two youngsters gave Kashmir its own Facebook to beat internet curfew". [[India Today|DailyO]].
- ↑ sofi (2017-05-17). "How two youngsters gave Kashmir its own Facebook to beat internet curfew". Kashmir Observer. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ DelhiMay 16, India Today Web Desk New; May 16, 2017UPDATED; Ist, 2017 19:06. "16-year-old develops Kashbook, Kashmir's own Facebook, after government banned social media websites". India Today. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "A 16-Year-Old Kashmiri Boy Is Helping Thousands Reconnect in the Face of a State Ban on Social Media". The Better India. 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ "Kashmir software enthusiast develops Kashbook". Greater Kashmir. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ "16-year-old boy thwarts govt's social media ban; creates Kashmir's own Facebook". CatchNews.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ Agrawal, Ravi (November 2018). India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-085865-0. Search this book on
- ↑ "How Pakistan gamers joined hands for Kashmiri's Indian PUBG team". The Indian Express. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ "How the Indian Ban on PUBG Brought Gamers From India and Pakistan Together". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ Lele, Nutan (2020-10-06). "Stalwart Esports Signs FreeStyle To Play PMPL After PUBG Mobile Ban". AFK Gaming. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ "Games without frontiers: Indians, Pakistanis team up for eSports - An unheard alliance". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ KAMAL, Faisal. "Games Without Frontiers: Indians, Pakistanis Team Up For ESports". www.barrons.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
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