Archives: Authors

Shinie Antony has authored the short-story collections The Orphanage for Words, Barefoot and Pregnant and the novels When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, A Kingdom for His Love. She has compiled the anthology Why We Don’t Talk. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and festival director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story ‘A Dog’s Death’. Her novel The Girl Who Couldn’t Love will be out this year.

Tulika Tripathi is currently managing director of Asian operations for a global talent solutions company, with extensive experience in managing and leading teams across multiple geographies. She started her career in management consulting, followed by banking. For the past decade, she has worked in recruitment where she regularly provides career advice to job seekers.

Subroto Bagchi is an entrepreneur, author and public servant. He co-founded Mindtree, India’s first venture-capital funded software services company that went all the way from idea to IPO. He has authored eight bestselling books including The High-Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World and The Professional.
After stepping down from Mindtree in 2016, he took up a full-time, pro-bono assignment as chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority in the rank of a cabinet minister. During his eight-year stint there, he made acknowledged contributions to skill development, management of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as institutional capacity building.

V. Raghunathan has been an author, banker, columnist and corporate executive. He taught finance and accounting for nearly two decades, from 1982 to 2001, at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. For the last two decades he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, where he teaches behavioural finance. His books include Corruption Conundrum, Don’t Sprint the Marathon, Games Indians Play, and Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives. He writes a column for the Economic Times, contributes to several other dailies and magazines from time to time, and blogs for the Times of India. He has authored nearly 500 papers and articles. He was president of ING Vysya Bank from 2001 to 2004. Raghunathan sits on various corporate boards and lectures extensively in India and abroad. His website is www.vraghunathan.com.

James Joseph is the founder of JackFruit365, an initiative to create an organized market for
nutrient-rich jackfruits in India.
He has twenty years of experience in North America, Europe and India with globally reputed organizations like Microsoft, 3M and Ford. In his last role as Director, Executive Engagement, Microsoft, he was responsible for strengthening the company’s relationship with senior executives of the top 200 enterprises in India, which he managed from his village in Kerala. Prior to
this James was responsible for manufacturing industry marketing for Microsoft in the UK. James is a recipient of several awards including the Circle of Excellence, the highest award at Microsoft, and the Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year instituted by TiEcon Kerala.
He has a master’s degree in engineering business management from University of Warwick, UK, and a degree in mechanical engineering from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.

C.K. Prahalad is the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of business administration at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration and chairman of the board of Praja, a technology management company in San Diego. He lives in San Diego but travels extensively.
Venkat Ramaswamy is a professor of marketing at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Hoihnu Hauzel is a native of Manipur. She completed her schooling in Shillong and Delhi, and has a master’s degree in political science from Delhi University. She has been a journalist with the Asian Age, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, the Times of India, and The Telegraph in Delhi. She is currently pursuing an independent writing career and continues to promote the North-East through her writings and entrepreneurial ventures like her travel portal, Northeast Odyssey(www.northeastodyssey.com)and a digital North-East lifestyle magazine, NE Travel and Life (www.netravelandlife.com).
She has also to her credit a book of poems, Moments of Time. Hoihnu is committed to the development of the North-East. This book is, for her, a step towards the promotion of the region.