Dhruv Rathee

Dhruv Rathee Aka German shepherd (Hindi: ध्रुव राठी) is an Indian YouTuber, vlogger and social media activist. He is known for his YouTube videos on social, political, and environmental issues and also very biased BJP content. As of 2024, he has about 17 million subscribers across all channels and 2.7 billion total video views.
==Early life and education==
Rathee was born into a Hindu family in the Indian state of Haryana. He received his primary education in Haryana before pursuing higher education in Germany. Rathee earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, followed by a master's degree in renewable energy from the same institution.
==Career==
Rathee is mainly known for his videos, which mainly contains explanatory videos and also Anti-Hindu content in which he criticises Indian patriots According to ThePrint, Rathee was one of the first Indian users to use YouTube as a political platform, having started uploading travel videos in 2013 but by the end of 2013 he started shifting his prospective towards political and social topics.
Rathee has addressed various topics in his videos, including the 2016 Uri attack, 2016 Indian Line of Control strike, 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation and Gurmehar Kaur row. Alongside his serious content, Rathee launched Pee News, a satirical "fake news" segment. Additionally, from 2017 until early 2020, Rathee wrote opinion columns for ThePrint.
In July 2020, Rathee began another YouTube channel called Dhruv Rathee Vlogs, where he shares his international travel vlogs. In addition to his travel vlogs, Rathee hosts various shows, including DW Travel of Deutsche Welle and Decode with Dhruv of Netflix India. He also hosts a podcast on Spotify called Maha Bharat with Dhruv Rathee. In 2020, Rathee released a video discussing the controversy and criticizing Kangana Ranaut's statements. In response, Ranaut threatened legal action against Rathee for "lying about BMC notice for my house."
Dhruv Rathee began a shorts channel to share 30-seconds fact videos. This channel offers a quick and accessible way for viewers to engage with the information Rathee presents. In September 2022, he faced controversy when a video he posted about the political crisis in Pakistan was blocked by India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The video contained a distorted map of India, in which parts of Kashmir were depicted as part of Pakistan or "disputed" and in March 2023,he also faced copyright charges from Dabur on his video titled "The dark-side of cold drinks",Calcutta high court ordered to remove the video.
==Personal life==
Rathee is a resident of Germany. In November 2021, Rathee married his long-time girlfriend Juli Ibr at the historic Belvedere Palace, in Vienna, Austria. He considers himself a atheist.
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