Burra Naga Trinadh, called "BNT" in friends circle is an alumnus of Institute of Rural Management Anand, IRMA. As a young management thinker his paper titled "Druckerism" was rated in the world top 40 by the Peter Drucker Society Europe, Vienna in 2011. He writes for the Hindu Businessline on development and rural issues. Currently he works in the development sector and also an advisory member to the board of Hyderabad Business School. Hailing from the city of destiny "Visakhapatnam", he was passionate about writing and public speaking from his school days. He wrote short stories, articles, essays and poems from his school days and one day his Professor at college gave him a compliment for his article by calling him "Mr. Emotional Thinker", which eventually became his pen name. He aspires to become a Statesman someday and wants to reach out the people, especially the Youth through his writings and thus there is "Barefoot Brigade".