Archives: Authors

Shweta Punj is an award-winning journalist and was chosen as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum. She is a deputy editor with India Today, where she writes about economy, political economy, start-ups and development. She was awarded the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity (national and South Asia) for her investigative series on child sex slaves. With over two decades of journalistic experience across the US and in India, Punj has worked with CNBCTV18, Inside Washington Publishers, Bloomberg UTV, NewsX and Business Today. She co-founded a digital governance platform, Whypoll, which introduced India’s first mobile application for women’s safety. Punj is also the founder of Original Women Network, a community for women to empower and inspire all.

Nanda Menon is a managing director in the investment banking division at a leading international bank in London. He studied mechanical engineering at King’s College London in 1990 before joining Arthur Andersen in London, on the oil and gas team, where he qualified as a chartered accountant (England and Wales). He has been working in the global natural resources sector (gold, diamonds, iron ore, coal, oil and gas) for over twenty
years. He is one of the oldest and most experienced international investment bankers covering India since 1994. In 2000, Businessworld ranked him as the No. 2 dealmaker in India. Menon is a regular speaker at investment conferences internationally and his letters on global macroeconomic issues have been published in the Financial Times.

Professor S. Manikutty has specialized in Business Policy and Strategy and his areas of interest include strategic management and competitive strategy, leadership, global competitiveness of industries, corporate governance and strategies for family businesses. He is the Regional Editor (Asia and the Pacific) of European Journal of International Mangement (EJIM), a member of the Editorial Board of Vikalpa, the journal of IIM Ahmedabad, Journal of Human Values published by the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and of International Journal of Innovation and Incubation published by Chinese Business Incubation Association (Taiwan) as well as associate editor of Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability published by St. Paul University (Quezon City, Philippines).

Anurag K. Agarwal is a mechanical Engineer from MNREC, Allahabad (now known as MNNIT). After working for less than a year with Bharat Petroleum, he decided to study law. He completed his LL.B., LL.M., and LL.D. from Lucknow University and a second LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He practised as an Advocate at Lucknow for about seven years and for about a year and a half at Delhi. He switched over to full-time teaching in 2004, with a brief stint at MDI Gurgaon. He has been with IIMA since then in the Business Policy Area and has been the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy (PGP-PMP) at IIMA. He is a visiting faculty at ESSEC, Paris. His teaching and research interests include intellectual property, dispute resolution, and relationship between business, government, and law.

Sanjeev Sanyal is a prolific writer who writes for adults and children. He has also authored The Incredible History of India’s Geography for a younger audience. Sanjeev Sanyal is the principal economic advisor to the Government of India and an internationally acclaimed economist and urban theorist. He writes on topics ranging from economics to history and is the author of the bestselling books Land of the Seven Rivers and The Indian Renaissance. In 2014, he was given the inaugural International Indian Achievers Award for contributions to literature. He has been a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, visiting scholar at Oxford University, adjunct fellow at Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a senior fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. Sanjeev attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and St. John’s College, Oxford, where he was Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Delhi.

Novy Kapadia is a renowned sports journalist and columnist, and teaches English literature at Delhi University. Recognized as India’s foremost football expert and commentator on leading television channels, he is the author of The Football Fanatic’s Essential Guide Book, and has contributed to Soccer in South Asia and Fields of Play. Novy has been consultant to the Limca Book of Records from 1990 onwards, and has edited the Durand Journal-India’s most comprehensive football journal-since 1983. Since 1980, he has covered several international championships, including the World Cup and the Olympics, and all major domestic tournaments.
Novy won the Wills Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism in 1986. He lives in Delhi.

Madhu Jain was educated at Connecticut College in the United States, following which she did her master’s in literature from Delhi University and studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the Seventies she worked as a reporter for the Statesman, moving towards the end of the decade to the Sunday magazine to write on politics, foreign affairs and culture. She was also the New Delhi correspondent with the French national daily, La Croix, for a decade before she joined India Today in 1986, where she remained until 2000. Since then she has written for several publications, including Outlook and the Hindu, on contemporary life, art and cinema. She has curated two art exhibitions-Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai on kitsch and the contemporary imagination, and the other on the painter Viswanadhan.
Madhu Jain lives in Delhi with her physicist husband Krishna Jain. They have two children.

Susmita Dasgupta has a PhD on Amitabh Bachchan from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been a Senior Fellow at the National Film Archive of India, Pune, where she worked on the history of ideas of Indian popular cinema since its inception. She teaches film appreciation in management schools, and works as a deputy chief economist with the economic research unit of the ministry of steel. She has written extensively for several prominent journals that cover issues of sociology, media and political economy.
Her forthcoming book is an appreciation of the popular Hindi film Deewar.

Subroto Bagchi is an author, business leader and entrepreneur. He graduated from Utkal University with a degree in political science. He was a clerk in the industries department of the Odisha government. He then worked for several software companies between 1981 and 1999, in different departments such as marketing, operations and sales. Bagchi is a co-founder of Mindtree Ltd. Some of Bagchi’s famous books include The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth, MBA at 16: A Teenager’s Guide to the World of Business and Professional: Defining the New Standard of Excellence at Work.

Baba Prasad, president and CEO of Vivékin Group, is a leading thinker in the area of management strategy and innovation. Prasad studied computer science and artificial intelligence and robotics at universities in India and the USA. He holds a PhD in operations and information management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Prasad is a Sloan Fellow at the Wharton School and visiting professor of management at the International Institute for Information Technology, Hyderabad. He has been a technology strategy consultant on Wall Street, and has served as faculty in the business schools at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota.

Prasad and his wife, Professor Leela Prasad of Duke University, also work in economically underprivileged elementary schools in Hyderabad. They helped to set up Aksharavani, a school for children of migrant construction workers, in the city. They are currently making a documentary film titled Moved by Gandhi. Prasad lives across two continents and is a fitness enthusiast.