Old Sessions

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...

​13 September 2022 - Online 4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Inaugural Welcome by V Raghunathan , Chair - Bangalore Business Literature Festival. ...

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

Books That Inspired Me. Books Every Entrepreneur & Professional Must Read Vinita Bali, MD, Britannia Industries In Conversation with K....

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