Santonu Dhar is an entrepreneur and novelist. He was born on 28 March, 1986 to a Bengali Hindu family in Cumilla, Bangladesh. Ratan Ranjan Dhar, his father, is a businessman, while Mita, his mother, is a housewife. He holds a Level 7 qualification of Chartered Management Institute (CMI), UK and has been a Fellow of the institute since October 2018. He had a desire of creating stories that readers would fall in love with since he was a child, but he had to put his dream on hold in order to focus on his studies and job. Finally, in 2012, he was able to put pen to paper with the publication of his first novel, Life Of Love, which was originally published in 2013. He writes novels with themes that include love, tragedy and fate.

Santonu Dhar is the Chairman and CEO of Technosmith Limited, a software firm.