Chandra Sekhar Gupta is a qualified chartered accountant, company secretary and certified financial planner with about twenty-five years of experience in both industry and capital markets. He is the founder of a social initiative called Proletarian Power (proletarianpower.org). Proletarian Power is a not-for-profit entity primarily engaged in analyzing macroeconomic environment in India from 'public interest' angle. Through this he critically examines government policies and take up the issues with the concerned ministry/authority when public interest get adversely affected. He is also working on projects that are meant to empower the proletariat or common man and help them to come out of poverty (without giving doles that will destroy their self-respect).