Sessions

Great Books. Great Ideas. Great Businesses @ EThames Business School, Rai Durg Program September 5, 2026 - 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm Registration, Networking, Explore Books at the Festival Bookstore 2.00 pm to 2.05 pm Welcome Benedict Paramanand, Festival Curator, Author, CK Prahalad - The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Society | SMASH! The Rise of Indian Badminton: Stories of Grit and Triumph 2.05 pm to 2.30 pm Gen Z and the Convenienc

August 2, 2025 - 9.30 am to 7.00 pm @ The T-Hub, Knowledge City Fostering Entrepreneurship through Business Literature SCHEDULE Marvel - 5th Floor 9.30 am to 10.20 am Registration and Networking 10.20 am to 10.30 am Inauguration and Welcome Benedict Paramanand, Festival Curator 10.30 am to 11.30 am The Making of Hyderabad as the Global Innovation Hub Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group BVR Mohan Reddy, Author of Engineered in India: From Dreams to

9.00 am to 10.00 am Registration and Networking 10.00 am to 10.15 am Inaugural Session 10.15 am to 10.45 am An Author's Journey to New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2022 Dr. Harini Nagendra, Author, Director, Research Centre at Azim Premji University, with Shinie Antony, Author, Curator, Bangalore Literature Festival 10.45 am to 11.00 am WiseViews - Lessons from the Game Changers Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group, with Shankar P, Writer/editor at Knowledge at Wharton, F

​13 September 2022 - Online 4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Inaugural Welcome by V Raghunathan, Chair - Bangalore Business Literature Festival. Host - Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author; Advisor - Bangalore Business Literature Festival. 5.00 pm - 5.30 pm New Age Literature - Content in all its Forms Ankur Warikoo understands modern storytelling, social media, and content like no other. His millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter are proof of that. Now, his debu

21 - 23 September 2021 4.00 pm - 8.00 pm ​21 September 2021 4.00 pm to 4.15 pm Welcome V Raghunathan, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival, former Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, columnist and author of best-sellers like Games Indians Play, Ganesha on the Dashboard; The Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas; Locks, Mahabharata And Mathematics: An Exploration Of Unexpected Parallels. 4.15 pm to 5.10 pm The Butterfly Moment: From Journalism to Writing Books S

Day 1 - October 30, 2020, 4 pm to 8.00 pm 4.00 pm to 4.30 pm Welcome and talk on Impact of Covid Pandemic on Publishing V Raghunathan, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival, Former Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, Columnist and Author of best-sellers like Games Indians Play, Ganesha on the Dashboard, The Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas, Locks, Mahabharata And Mathematics : An Exploration Of Unexpected Parallels 4.30 pm to 4.45 pm Branding Challenges i

Compelling Stories & Conversations Morning Session 09.00 a.m. Registration 09.50 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Welcome Hosts Sandeep Das and Archana Chakravarthy 10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. The Craft of Business Storytelling Malavika Harita, former CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Focus and founder, Brand Circle Ameen Haque, founder, Storywallahs Sona Maniar, Author of 'Peasants at a Party & Other Stories', a work of corporate fiction What makes storytelling a compelling method of communicatio

09.00 a.m. Registration and Networking Tea by Typhoo 10 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Opening Welcome by BBLF Chair Dr. V. Raghunathan, Director, Schulich School of Business, India Campus, Hyderabad, and CEO, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation; Formerly, Professor of Finance at IIM Ahmedabad and President of ING Vysya Bank. He is also an Author and a Columnist. His books, mostly non-fiction, include Games Indians Play, with Return to Jammu being the latest and his only novel. 10.15 a.m. – 10.4

Biographies & Indian Business History Morning Sessions 09.00 am Registration 09.30 am – 09.45 am Welcome 09.45 am – 10.30 am Timeless Lessons from Business Biographies Dr. G.Raghuram, Director IIM Bangalore Ajay Nanavati, Former MD, 3M. Founder Grey Gurus Joydeep Sen Sarma, Author of Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise with DataOps – Insights from Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay Sangeeth Varghese, Founder LeadCap Ventures 10.30 am – 11.15 am Failing to Succeed

Entrepreneurship Literature – Read & Prosper Morning Sessions 09.00 am Registration 10 am – 10.15 am Welcome 10.15 am – 11.30 am The Business Case for Reading Successful business leaders reminisce on their reading habits; books they enjoyed when they were young; what books taught them; books they hated reading and which books they want every future and current entrepreneur not to miss. ​ Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease Sahil Barua, Co- founder e-commerce firm De

Books That Inspired Me. Books Every Entrepreneur & Professional Must Read Vinita Bali, MD, Britannia Industries In Conversation with K. Jairaj, Former Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Karnataka A Critique on Indian Business Writing Post Reforms – Their Contribution to Confusion or/and Clarity Prof. Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance and Control, UTI Chair Professor at IIMB Shankar P., Editor at Knowledge@Wharton Dheeraj Sinha, Author of India Reloaded: Inside India