About Us
Welcome to Cooptalks India – your gateway to the cooperative world! This dynamic platform is dedicated to sparking conversations, sharing thought-provoking articles/ success stories, and amplifying the voices shaping the cooperative movement across India and beyond. Whether it’s interviews with visionary leaders, deep dives into grassroots innovations, or insightful columns, Cooptalks India brings the power of storytelling to the heart of cooperation. We believe that every cooperative has a story worth telling – and we’re here to tell it with impact, insight, and integrity.
Cooptalks India is not just a website – it’s the future of cooperative communication. Designed to be a hub for dialogue, discovery, and digital empowerment, the platform envisions a new era where cooperatives lead the way in inclusive growth, sustainability, and social innovation. With a global outlook and a local soul, Cooptalks India is bridging knowledge gaps, inspiring youth engagement, and fostering partnerships through meaningful content and interactive formats. Join us as we shape the narrative of a better world, one cooperative at a time.
Sanjay Kumar Verma
Founder and Editor
With around 30 years of experience in cooperative development, Sanjay Kumar Verma worked as Advisor in National Cooperative Union of India, an apex organization of the Indian Cooperative movement based in Delhi. He also headed Publications/PR Division in National Cooperative Union of India( NCUI) before his retirement. Presently, he is working as Advisor in National Film and Fine Arts Cooperative (NAFFAC).During his stay in NCUI, under “Coop Connect’ Program, he played a pivotal role in popularizing cooperative model among the educational institutions.
With MPhil in International Relations from JNU, he has more than 100 publications to his credit in national and international journals, besides writing articles for leading dailies of India. He is author of three books- ‘Cooperative Growth and Trends’,‘ Public Relations, Media and Cooperatives’; and ‘Introspect, Explore and Enrich Yourself.” Presently, a member of Research Committee of International Cooperative Alliance Regional Office for Asia-Pacific(ICA-AP), he has been an active presenter at ICA-AP Research Conferences held in India and other countries. Having worked in ICA-AP for some time, he was also associated as Consultant with New Harmony Press, UK for a long time, which published International Journal of Cooperative Management. Presently, he is on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Cooperative Management and Accounting, a journal published by Sobey Business School, Canada.
He has a long training/teaching experience in reputed institutions like NCCE(a training wing of NCUI), JNU,LINAC, IIMC, IGNOU, Delhi University, etc with focus on subjects like cooperative sectoral trends, communications, media, PR, journalism, career and entrepreneurial opportunities in cooperatives , etc.
