Santonu Kumar Dhar is an entrepreneur and novelist. He was born on March 28, 1986, to a Bengali Hindu family in Cumilla, Bangladesh. He holds a Level 7 qualification from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), UK, and has been a Fellow of the institute since October 2018. He is also currently pursuing a Post-Graduation Certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.