Books That Inspired Me. Books Every Entrepreneur & Professional Must Read
Vinita Bali
In conversation with K. Jairaj
A Critique on Indian Business Writing Post Reforms - Their Contribution to Confusion or/& Clarity
Writings on Business & Technology – Insights & Experience into Their Interconnectedness
Alok Bhardwaj and Shoaib Ahmed
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand
The Fine Art of Unraveling the DNA of Indian Entrepreneurs
Varun Agarwal, Ganesh V and Sivadas Raghava
In conversation with Vishwas Mudagal
Books That Can Help Launch Careers – For Young Managers & Students
Pradipta Mohapatra and Amisha Sethi
In conversation with Sangeeth Varghese
Games Indians Play – A Peek Into India’s Business Culture
V Raghunathan and Aakar Patel
In conversation with Vasanthi Srinivasan
Why I Wrote What I Wrote – How to Strengthen India’s Culture of Reading, Writing and Publishing
Subroto Bagchi
In conversation with V Raghunathan
New Age Literature - Content in all its Forms
Ankur Warikoo, author of Do Epic Shit
with Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founder, CEO - Pratilipi
The Westland Saga – From Tatas to Amazon to Pratilipi
Gautam Padmanabhan, Publisher of Bestsellers; Business Head - Pratilipi
with Benedict Paramanand, Co-founder - Bangalore Business Literature Festival; Author of CK Prahalad - The Mind of The Futurist
Mining Real Data – Navigating Convenient Untruths
Rukmini S, Author of Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, and Govindraj Ethiraj, Journalist; Founder - IndiaSpend with Debleena Majumdar, Author; Co-founder - Kahaniyah
The Shark Tank Tales
Namita Thapar, Author of The Dolphin and the Shark: Lessons in Entrepreneurship
with Rupangi Sharma, Author of Young Indian Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Change-makers; Editor; Founder & CEO - EFG Learning: Education for Growth
How to Build a Prosperous India
R N Bhaskar, Author of Game India: Seven Strategic Advantages That Can Steer India to Wealth with Rajashekar Iyer, Expert in Equity Research, Advisory and Investment Management
An Insider's Lens into the Indian Corporate Frauds
Smarak Swain, Author of The Great Indian Fraud: Serious Frauds Which Shook the Economy with Subha Chandrasekaran, Founder - RainKraft Creative Solutions
From High-Fliers to Fallen Angels - Stories of Cafe Coffee Day, Reliance (ADAG), Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines
Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Author of Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World's Largest Democracy with Raghuvir Srinivasan, Editor - Business Line; Chartered Accountant
Indian CSR 2.0
Meena Raghunathan, Author of Doing Good – Navigating the CSR Maze with Shantheri Mallaya, Editor - News ETCIO; Trustee - Chiranthana
Embracing The Man-Machine Tango
John C Havens, Author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines with Kashyap Kompella, CEO - RPA2AI Research
The Future of Money
Eswar Prasad, Author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance with Shankar P, Editor - Knowledge at Wharton; Former Resident Editor - The Economic Times
India's Energy Future and the Built Environment
Reshma Singh, Senior Advisor - U.S. Department of Energy with Vijaya Bhargav, Partner - Ostraca
Behavioural Economics Decoded for Business
V Raghunathan, Author of Irrationally Rational: Ten Nobel Laureates Script the Story of Behavioural Economics; Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are with Divya Kumar, Group Digital CFO - IKEA Retail
How to be Comfortable with Technology
Siddharth Pai, Author of Techproof Me: The Art of Mastering Ever-Changing Technology, Consultant with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director - YourStory
Social Purpose of Business
Melodena Stephens, Author of Business With Purpose: Advancing Social Enterprise with Aarti Mohan, Co-founder - Sattva Consulting
What is the Most Enduring Question of Business Literature
Manish Sabharwal, Chairman - TeamLease Services with V Raghunathan, Chair - Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Chronicling the Startup Life
TN Hari, Author of From Pony to Unicorn – Scaling a Startup Sustainably; Co-founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship; Angel Investor with Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author of The Underage CEOs: Fascinating Stories of Young Indians Who have Become CEOs in their Twenties; Branding Specialist; Book Coach
How to Make Business Schools Startup-Friendly
Sudhakar Rao, Director - ICFAI Group with Kashyap Kompella, CEO - RPA2AI Research
Success Secrets of 15 Entrepreneurs
Ujwal Kalra, Author of Startup Compass – How Iconic Entrepreneurs Got it Right with Shoaib Ahmed, Founder - Catalyster; Former President - Tally; Co-founder - iSpirit
Investing in Student Startups
Suresh Narasimha, Founder - CoCreate.ventures; CEO - JustBooks with Anaya Jethanandani, Student - Indus International School; Founder - FINWIN and Maanya Singh, StartupYou Student Entrepreneur; Founder - Incuba-Naari
Stories of Resilience During the Pandemic
Rashmi Daga, Founder - FreshMenu with Suviggya Bansall, Owner - Gopaljee Café
What Makes Social Startups Tick
Nagaraja Prakasam, Author of the forthcoming book Back To Bharat – In Search of A Sustainable Future; Angel Investor; Mentor; NSRCEL - IIMB with Vinay Prashant, Social Entrepreneur; Co-founder - Tamaala
Launchpad - Book Launches
Ramesh Kumar, Author of Maybe Means "No"
Prithvi Madhukar, Author of Zero to Four Figures
Amit Agarwal, Author of Small is Big
2022 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award
Lessons for Brand Custodians from the Pandemic
Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group
The Ingram Story
Keel Hunt is an author and newspaper columnist from Nashville with a keen eye on political and cultural change. His latest book, THE FAMILY BUSINESS: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books draws on over 70 interviews with company insiders and book-industry luminaries to chronicle the extraordinary journey of 50 years in which the little-known Nashville-based company grew to play a pivotal role in transforming book publishing around the world. Keel's previous books include, COUP: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor (2013), CROSSING THE AISLE: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the 21st Century and Could Save America (2016).
In conversation with Karthika V K, Publisher, Westland Publications
Tracking Publishing's Digital Transformation
Mike Shatzkin is the founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a thought leader on digital trends in the book publishing industry spanning a 50+ year-long career in the book publishing industry. He is the author/co-author of nearly a dozen books, including The Shatzkin Files and The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know
In conversation with Vikas Gupta, Managing Director, Wiley India; former President of Association of Publishers in India (API); promoter-member of the Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) and author/co-author of 15 books.
In conversation with Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Person branding coach, writer, book editor & book coach. He speaks with Durjai Sethi and Gaurav Mandlecha
The Marketing Conundrum – Making Sense of the Emerging Landscape
Dr. Karthik Nagendra is a management consultant, life coach and CEO of ThoughtStarters. He co-founded Pink Ladder. He is the author of The Thought Leader Way: Leading Your Business with Thought Leadership in an Altered World.
Jessie Paul, marketing expert and CEO of B2B consulting firm, Paul Writer. She is the author of Marketing Without Money: An Essential Guide
In conversation with Deepali Naair, CMO, IBM India, Podcaster Inc CEOs.
The Deep State - The Silent Coup: The History of India’s Deep State
Josy Joseph is an award-winning investigative journalist and author, who has exposed some of India's biggest scandals. He is also the founder of Confluence Media, a platform-agnostic investigative journalism outfit. In his last role, he was the National Security Editor of The Hindu.
In conversation with Mihir Sharma, fellow at ORF, columnist and author of Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.
Literature’s Tech Game Plan
Bibhu Dutta Rout has been a tech professional in investment banking. He is the author of Wheels Of Wish: A Crime Planned 800 Years Ago. He is the co-founder and CEO of StoryMirror.
Ranjeet Pratap Singh is the co-founder / CEO of Pratilipi, India's largest storytelling platform with over 30 million active users in 12 Indian languages.
Suresh Narasimha, a technology & consumer-focused venture capitalist, owns JustBooks.
In conversation with Kashyap Kompella, author of Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook.
How to Turn Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans
David Meerman Scott spotted the real-time marketing revolution in its infancy and wrote five books about it including, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, now in a 7th edition, with more than 400,000 copies sold in English and available in 29 languages from Albanian to Vietnamese. He is a business strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, public speaker, author of ten books. His latest Fanocracy: Turning Fans Into Customers and Customers Into Fans, co-authored with medical professional and fanfiction writer Reiko Scott, is a WSJ bestseller.
In conversation with Alap Ghosh is a digital transformation specialist with over 21 years of experience, a certified marketing trainer and an educator for digital marketing at top universities like IIMB.
2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Reshape the Future
Prof. Mauro Guillen, Director of Cambridge Judge Business School, author and management expert. He is author of How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything.
In conversation with Mukul Pandya, Founding and former Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge@Wharton and author.
Start-Up Success Stories: Less-known Secrets and Trends
Sanjeev Aggarwal is a lifecycle investor, co-founder of Daksh, Helion and Fundamentum. He is the co-author of From Pony to Unicorn: Scaling a Start-Up Sustainably.
Prof. Srivardhini K Jha, Faculty, IIM Bangalore, is the co-author of Shifting Orbits: Decoding the Trajectory of the Indian Start-up Ecosystem.
Kaninika Mishra is a corporate learning and development professional and author of three non-fiction books. The latest one, The Indic Quotient: Reclaiming Heritage through Cultural Enterprise (Bloomsbury, 2020) has received great appreciation from Shiva Trilogy author Amish Tripathi, award-winning historian and author, Hindol Sengupta, as well as Niti Ayog.
In conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director of YourStory and author of 15 books on management and culture
New Work, New Workplace
Parmesh Shahani is the founder of the award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab in Mumbai. He is a member of the FICCI task force on diversity and inclusion, board member of Khoj International Artists’ Association, a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Vivan Marwaha is a user researcher, works on technology projects in emerging markets, and is author of What Millennials Want: Decoding the Largest Generation in the World - deemed an "urgent work of scholarship" by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
Bhavna Dalal is the Founder and CEO of Talent Power Partners. She specialises in Leadership Coaching and Training. She helps new and experienced leaders from around the world align to their vision and strengths. She serves on the board of directors of Bodhi Education Society as Vice President, regularly writes for Forbes and Fortune and has authored two books -- Checkmate Office Politics and Team Decision Making -- that have received great praise from several business and thought leaders, including legendary business educator and coach Marshall Goldsmith.
Dr Swetha Jain, Dean, ICFAI Business School, Jaipur.
In conversation with Tony V Francis, Author, The Autograph Seeker and Chief Revenue Officer, Matrix Publicities (WPP).
Being Human in the Age of Technology
Rishad Tobaccowala recently authored the bestseller, Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data. He is a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe, where he served as Chief Growth and Strategy Officer until recently. He has been named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for pioneering innovation, dubbed by TIME magazine as one of five “Marketing Innovators” He is in the Ad Age Interactive Hall of Fame and recipient of lifetime achievement silver medal award from the Chicago Ad Federation.
In conversation with Tarun Durga, brand strategist, digital transformation specialist and founder of ClearSky Design Thinking Consultancy. He was an associate director at Deloitte.
Radical Vision for India's Sustainability
Padu Padmanabhan, author of First Fuel: India's Energy Efficiency Journey and a Radical Vision for Sustainability.
In conversation with Hariharan Chandrashekar. He is an Indian ecological economist and mentor for green entrepreneurship.
Conversation with AuthorGuru R Gopalakrishnan
R Gopalakrishnan is one of India's most prolific authors among business leaders. He has authored 16 books on various areas of Management. He wrote most of them while holding senior leadership positions in the Tata Group.
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand, co-founder of Bangalore Business Literature Festival and founder of Green Literature Festival. He edits SustainabilityNext magazine. He's the author of CK Prahalad - The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy.
2021 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award
Peter Yorke a thought leader in business communications, will be in conversation with the winner Parmesh Shahani
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
Branding Challenges in a Polarised World
Sudhakar Rao, Director-Branding, ICFAI Group
Entrepreneur Professionals – A Well-kept Secret of Big Businesses & How to Grow This Tribe in India
Sudhir Sitapati, Author of The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever, VP, Hindustan Lever Ltd
In Conversation with Srinivasa Addepalli, Co-founder of GlobalGyan, Former Chief Strategy Officer, Tata Communications
Decoding India's Mega Scams
K Giriprakash, Author of The Vijay Mallya Story, Chief of Bureau Hindu Businessline
Pavan C Lall, Author of Flawed: The Rise and Fall of India’s Diamond Mogul Nirav Modi, Senior Journalist
Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Author of Sahara: The Untold Story, Senior Journalist
In conversation with Shankar P, Editor at Knowledge@Wharton, Former Resident Editor, The Economic Times
An Expat’s Desi Chronicle
Vladi Ruppo, Author, Russian Expat, Senior IT Professional, Entrepreneur.
In conversation with Sumathi Chari, Co-founder PRHUB
Writing on the Wall – How Authors are Influencing Climate Change & Sustainability Discourse
Navi Radjou, Co-Author of Do Better With Less – Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Growth, Winner of Thinkers 50 Award. Innovation and leadership advisor based in New York
Meghaa Gupta, Author of Unearthed – An Environmental History of Independent India
Harini Nagendra, Author of Cities and Canopies, Faculty at Azim Premji University
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand, Editor, SustainabilityNext
Indian Start-Ups – Adventures and Lessons from the Trenches
Sidharth Rao, Author of How I Almost Blew It – Incredible Lessons from India’s Most Successful Digital Entrepreneurs, Founder of Webchutney
Rahul Chandra, Author of The Moonshot Games – Adventures of a Venture Capitalist, Founder of Arkam Ventures
Karthik Kumar, Author of Don’t Startup: What No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Business, Actor, Director and Comedian
In Conversation with T N Hari, Author of Say No to Jugaad – The Making of Big Basket, Advisor & Mentor to Startups
Social Entrepreneurship – How to Get the Best of the Two Worlds
Madan Padaki, Serial Social Entrepreneur, Co-founder Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) & Head Held High
Madhukar Shukla, Author of Social Entrepreneurship in India : Quarter Idealism and a Pound of Pragmatism, faculty XLRI
Anuja Master Bose, Independent Advisor for Social Enterprises and Philanthropy
In Conversation with Smarinita Shetty, Co-founder and CEO, India Development Review
Becoming You – The Inner Journey Chronicles
Alok Kejriwal, Author of The Cave - An Internet Entrepreneur’s Spiritual Journey, founder of Games2Win
In conversation with Caroline Cares, Author of Becoming You – Stories of Courage & Vulnerability, Founder of Vibha – Community for Inclusion
Non-Obvious Trends Shaping Businesses, Careers & Societies
Rohit Bhargava, Author of Non-Obvious Trends – WSJ Bestseller
Prateek Raj, Author of Evolution of Business and Markets – How Free and Inclusive Societies Emerge, Prof. of Strategy, IIM Bangalore
Sandeep Das, Director PWC, Author of Hacks for Career and Life – A Millennials’ Guide to Making it Big
In conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory
2020 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony
Introduction to the award by Benedict Paramanand, Author of CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist, Smash! The Rise of Indian Badminton: Stories of Grit & Triumph
Relevance of late Prof. C K Prahalad’s Ideas today by Narayanan Ramachandran, CK's student and former head of Morgan Stanley India
Presentation of the award by Mrs. Gayatri Prahalad and Deepa Prahalad
Award Acceptance speech by Mihir Dalal, Author of Big Billion Startup – The Flipkart Story
Fireside chat with the Jury Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director IIM Bangalore, one of the 4 Jury members, about how the jury picked this book and not the others in the shortlist
Bangalore Business Literature Festival 2019 | Glimpse
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.
The Jobs Crisis - How Can India Leverage its Strengths?
R. Jagannathan, Author of The Jobs Crisis in India
In conversation with Sudheesh Venkatesh, Chief People Officer, Azim Premji Foundation
Writings on Indian Corporate History - Decoding the Tata Legacy
Harish Bijoor, Branding Guru, CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults
Mukund Rajan, Author of The Brand Custodian: My Years with the Tatas
In conversation with Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Professor of Strategy, IIM Bangalore
Games2Win
Alok Kejriwal, Author of Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks
In conversation with Ashok G, founder CEO, StartUp360
The Art of Authorship
V Raghunathan, Author of Games Indians Play and 14 more
Legend’s Talk - Leaders as Readers
Narayana Murthy, Co-founder, Infosys
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand, CEO Bangalore Biz LitFest, Author of CK Prahalad - The Mind of the Futurist, editor SustainabilityNext
BBLF CK Prahalad Award for the Best Business Book 2019
My Choice My Future
Dr. Priyadharshini SK, Faculty, ICFAI Business School
Business Literature in Indian Languages
Mahendra Sharma, CEO, Matrubharti
Vikrant Pande, Writer and Literary Translator
Sharmin Ali, founder & CEO, Instoried, Author
In conversation with Amar Deshpande, founder, gaatha story
Invisible Rules of Success for Young Professionals
Shalini Lal and Pradnya Parasher, Authors of The Secret Lives of Organizations – Invisible Rules of Success for the Young Indian Professional
In conversation with Ramya Ranganathan, Adjunct Faculty, IIM Bangalore
Self-publishing Bestsellers - The Future of Publishing, Content and Media
Naveen Valsakumar, CEO, Notion Press
Amit Goel, Product Head, Amagi
In conversation with Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author of ‘Underage CEOs’ and Brand Specialist
Demystifying Entrepreneurship
Shradha Sharma, Co-author of ‘Cut the Crap & Jargon Lessons from the Start-up Trenches’ and founder, YourStory
Varad Rajan Krishna, founder, 100 Open Startups and a serial entrepreneur with 5 successful exits
Nistha Tripathi, Author of ‘NO SHORTCUTS - Rare Insights From 15 Successful Start-up Founders’
Suresh Narasimha, founder, TELiBrahma, Sensara and MonkeyBox, Board Member, TiE. Currently runs CoCreate.ventures
Shoaib Ahmed, founder, Catalyster, Co-founder - iSpirit, former president, Tally Solutions
BBLF 2019 | Experience talks
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.
The Future of Work: Unasked Questions, Likely Answers
Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, Faculty, IIM Bangalore, brings insights from books on the subject. Her research interests include multi-generations in the workplace, women in management and boards, and ethics teaching at business schools.
Human + Machine - Will Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Take Away Jobs or Add New Ones?
Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda, Founder, Indihood, a crowd-sourcing platform for social good; founder of Google India and co-founder of Google Map Maker; and Advisor on AI & Machine Vision, Andhra Pradesh government.
BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award
Subroto Bagchi, the Award Winning Author
In Conversation with Benedict Paramanand, Author & CEO of BBLF and V Raghunathan
Climate Change and Green Jobs. How Big is the Potential? How can India Tap It?
Kolluru Krishan, Chairman, Skills Council of Green Jobs, incorporated by Govt of India and CII.
Mridula Ramesh, Author of The Climate Solution; Entrepreneur; Angel Investor.
Aroon Raman MD at Telos Investments & Technologies
In Conversation with Meena Raghunathan, Director, Community Services at GMR Varalakshmi Foundation
Business Quiz
Sandeep Das, Asst. Director, PwC Bangalore, Author of Satan’s Angels, Yours Sarcastically
Rajiv Jayaraman, Author of Clearing the Digital Blur. Founder and CEO of Knolskape
Business Management Education - Challenges of FUTURE Work Place
Sudhakar Rao, Director - Branding, ICFAI Group
Emerging Innovations in Business-Work Models
Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Author of 8 Steps to Innovation, Director, IIM Indore
Debashish Sengupta, Author of The Life of Y: Engaging Millennials as Employees and Consumers, Director, Alliance School of Business
Aarti Wig, Co-founder, Yunus Social Business India, inspired by Nobel laureate Prof. Mohammad Yunus
Rajiv Jayaraman, Author of Clearing the Digital Blur. Founder and CEO of Knolskape
Sangeeth Varghese, Author of Open Source Leader: The Future of Organizations
In Conversation with Priya Chetty-Rajagopal, Founder Multiversal Advisory
Emerging Entrepreneurship Models Relevant to India
Dr. Ashwin Naik, Founder, Vaatsalya Healthcare; Ashoka Fellow; Author of The Healthcare Gamechangers: How Innovators Around The World Are Disrupting The Ailing Healthcare Sector
Ankit Nagori, Co-Founder, Curefit, Eatfit, Mindfit; Angel Investor
Nikhil Kumar, Fellow at iSpirit Foundation, a professional with leadership experience in Startups, Strategic Partnerships, Policy, Platforms and Developer Ecosystems
In Conversation with S Parthasarathy, Author of Unmet Needs of Entrepreneurship: Why Entrepreneurs Do What They Do
Welcome
V Raghunathan, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Timeless Lessons from Business Biographies
Dr. G Raghuram, Ajay Nanavati & Joydeep Sen Sarma
In conversation with Sangeeth Vargese
Failing to Succeed - Stories of Start-ups that Gained Big from Initial Setbacks
P D Jose, Vaitheeswaran K and Vijay Menon
Modern Biographies of Indian Entrepreneurs - Success Secrets
Captain Gopinath, Rashmi Bansal, Alan Rosling
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand
Start-ups Disrupting Publishing
Abhaya Agarwal, Gaurav Gupta, Vignesh Ramaswamy
In conversation with Madanmohan Rao
Learnings from Literature for Management Students and Professionals
Ram Nidumolu, Rakesh Godhwani, R Srinivasan
In conversation with Ramya Ranganathan
‘The Story of Indian Business’ Tales Of Trade, Adventures In The Bazaar And Romance Of The High Seas
Gurcharan Das and Lakshmi Subramanian
Biographies of Indian Business Tycoons
Kingshuk Nag, Suresh Krishn
In conversation with Shankar P
Beyond the Call of Duty
V Raghunathan, Veena Prasad, Amit Agnihotri
Closing & Valedictory Talk ‘ Making a Living vs. Making a Life’
Gurcharan Das
Beating the Mid-Life Blues
As entrepreneurs and executives cross 40 after putting in about two decades into setting up and nurturing their business and careers, they are faced with the big question – What Next?
Most people find it very difficult to make the transition. This session is about understanding the art and science behind how to beat these blues and set oneself up for the next phase. How to reinvent?
Walter Vieira is the President of Marketing Advisory Services Group, which he founded in 1975. Prior to that, he spent 14 years working with various corporations—Glaxo, Warner Lambert, and the Boots Company. A Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of India (FIMC).
Gautam Mahajan is an internationally acclaimed expert in strategy, general management (including Customer Value), and globalization. He is President of Customer Value Foundation and Inter-Link Services Private Limited, an International Consulting Firm. Gautam is also the Founder Editor of the Journal of Creating Value, an international journal focused on Customer and Value Creation.
Real Stories Behind Start-ups
A lively conversation about how some authors have captured riveting stories of entrepreneurs, and the highs and lows they encountered on the way to where they are today.
Suveen Sinha, Author of The Tip of the Iceberg – Unknown Truths About Start Ups
Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author of The Underage CEOs - Fascinating Stories of Young Indians who Became CEOs in Their Twenties
In conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director at YourStory.com
Social Entrepreneurship - Success Secrets
Succeeding as a social entrepreneur needs special skills and commitment. Panelists will talk about how to ride the road that offers fulfillment as well as financial rewards.
Prof. Anil Gupta, Teaches at IIM Ahmedabad, Founder, HoneyBee Network
Shoma Bakre, Author, Co-founder, EmPower Research, Founder of NGO platform ‘Let’s Do Some Good.’
Naga Prakasam, Angel Investor, Social Entrepreneur and Mentor at N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
In conversation with Wilma Rodrigues, Founder, Saahas
Declaring Breakdowns
To declare a breakdown is to state that you are declaring a break from an old flow of life, and creating a new flow. It is stating that if the normal course of events were to take place, and if you did not actively participate in changing this course, you would end up in a particular future. If this future is not ok for you is when you have a choice to declare a breakdown; design a new future of design, and then take actions to achieve that future. Sameer Dua and his panel will talk about this critical leadership move, and it’s importance in designing futures of choice.
Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Asia South at NVIDIA
Atul Satija, Founder & CEO, The/Nudge Foundation
Jagdish Chawla, CEO Avirate Global at Timex & Fergasam Group
In conversation with Sameer Dua, Author of Declaring Breakdowns: Powerfully Creating a Future that Matters, through 6 Simple Steps
Entrepreneurship Wisdom from Ancient Indian Literature & Its Relevance Today
Devdutt Pattanaik, prolific author, will speak on the rare wisdom entrepreneurs can access from ancient Indian literature and how they are relevant in markets and boardrooms even today
In conversation with Ram Nidumolu
Environment & Entrepreneurship
How entrepreneurship will play a significant role if India is to mitigate the grave risks associated with climate change in the next two decades. The role of entrepreneurs in Dr. Guha’s Fourth Wave of Environmentalism in India and the world.
Prof. Anil Gupta, will show how grassroots innovation and micro entrepreneurship have the maximum potential to rid India of social and economic inequalities.
In conversation with Dr. Ramachandra Guha
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 Delhivery
Mukesh Bansal, Co-Founder Myntra and Curefit.com
Ashish Goyal, Portfolio Manager with a leading international Macro Hedge Fund.
In conversation with V. Raghunathan, CEO, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, Author of Games Indian Play, Don’t Sprint the Marathon
Crafting India’s Future Growth Model – How Not to Follow China & the West
Dr Ramachandra Guha, Eminent Environmental Historian
Crafting India's Sustainability Growth Model - Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa
Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman, The Akshaya Patra Foundation was founded by him in 2000 by feeding 1500 children in 5 govt. schools. He has been instrumental in conceiving and implementing many social initiatives that impact millions of people in this country, giving them a better quality of life. Besides his achievements in the social sector, he has evolved innovative ideas in presenting the ancient cultural ethos of India in a modern scientific and technological context.
Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman, The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Crafting India's Sustainability Growth Model - Prof. Ram Nidumolu
Prof. Ram Nidumolu is the managing director of the Academy for Innovation and Management (AIM), a Bengaluru-based institution that provides executive education programs in fast-emerging areas of management. He is also the CEO of California-based Innovastrat, Inc., a strategy consulting company that provides advisory services on the next practices of business to Fortune 500 companies.
Prof. Ram Nidumolu, Sustainability Expert & CEO, Innovastrat.com
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
WiseViews - Lessons from the Game Changers
Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group, with Shankar P, Writer/editor at Knowledge at Wharton, Former Resident Editor, The Economic Times
Dream a Billion Dream and How to Make it Happen
B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Author of Engineered in India: From Dreams to Billion-Dollar CYIENT, with Mukesh Sud, Associate Professor - Strategy Area, IIM Ahmedabad, Author of Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive at Work
Work 3.0 – Future of Careers in the AI World
Sameer Dhanrajani, CEO, AIQRATE Advisory & Consulting | President, 3AI | AI Advisor, Author of AI and Analytics: Accelerating Business Decisions, and Kavitha Rao, Managing Director, Accenture | Experienced Business Leader in Retail & Consumer | ICF ACC Coach | Speaker & Blogger | Mountaineer & Traveller, with Kashyap Kompella, Author of Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook
The Harsh Secrets of India's Successful Social Entrepreneurs
Nagaraja Prakasam, Author of Back to Bharat: In Search of a Sustainable Future, Start-up Mentor @ IIM Bangalore NSRCEL, with Wilma Rodrigues, Founder and CEO, Saahas Zero Waste
India’s Next Big IT and Tech Story
Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures, Co-founder, Infosys, President, ISF, Co-author of Against All Odds: The IT Story of India, with Jayanth N Kolla, Telecom | Deep Tech | Health Care - Technocrat; Consultant; Entrepreneur; Board Member; Global Speaker; Author
Shark Tank and Winning Middle India
Prerna Lidhoo, Author of Shark Tank India: Startup Fundas from the Sharks and Participants, and T.N. Hari, Author of Winning Middle India: The Story of India’s New-age Entrepreneurs, with Swati Jena, Founder, WriteFor, Author of The Entrepreneur’s Soulbook, Co-author of Diversity Beyond Tokenism, a TEDx speaker
Rapid Book Launches
Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar, Co-author, Air Marshal (Retired) and BR Srikanth, Co-author
Divya Khanna, Planner, Strategist, Author
Santosh Nambiar, Founder of Assay Matrix Pty Ltd (a biotech company), Author
Draw Parallels from Outside and Win Big
Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Authors of Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels, with Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore, Author of From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India
Straight Talk
Ashoka Mody, Author of India is Broken: And Why it's Hard to Fix, with Dr. V. Raghunathan, Chair, Bangalore Bizlitfest, Author of Irrationally Rational: Ten Nobel Laureates Script the Story of Behavioural Economics
Dr. R A Mashelkar's reflection on CK Prahalad's legacy
2023 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony
10 Years of BBLF Experience
Welcome to 10th Bangalore Business Literature Festival
V. Raghunathan, Prolific Author, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Secrets of Success in Career and Writing
Harish Bhat, Former Brand Custodian, Tata Sons, Author, Office Secrets: 50 Human Truths You Should Absolutely Know
Host - Shankar P., Writer/editor, Knowledge@Wharton
AI & You – Fear, Anguish, Hope
Tanuj Bhojwani, Co-author, The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Calm in the Digital World
Shalini Kapoor, Author, AI for You: The New Gamechanger
Host - Kashyap Kompella, Analyst, Author, Educator
The Spirit of India
Sriram Devatha, Author, Amrut – The Great Churn: The Global Story of India’s First Single Malt
Host - Mohua Chinappa, Founder, The Mohua Show, Author, Branding Expert
Crafting Career and Life in the VUCA World
Pavan Soni, Author, Designing Your Career: Lead Self, Lead Others, Lead Change
Prof Surjyabrat Buragohain, ICFAI Business School, Bangalore
G Raghuram, Former Director, IIM Bangalore, Former Dean, IIM Ahmedabad
Host - Maria Shah, Founder - Infinite Mindset Consulting, Coach
The Food Start-up Stories
Ravi Wazir, Author, Beyond the Menu - A Restaurant Start-up Guide
Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group
Where is the ESG Party Headed?
Vipul Arora, Author, The Essence of ESG: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Radhica Kanniganti, Leader ESG & Sustainability at Wipro
Host - Madhur Singh, Former Managing Editor, IndiaSpend and India Editor, Eco-Business, Festival Curator, Climate Communicator
Unravelling Indian Unicorns – Few Hits, Many Misses
Pradip K. Saha, Author, The Learning Trap: How Byju’s Took Indian Edtech for a Ride
Dhruv Nath, Author, The EARNICORNS – Stories of Rare, Profitable Unicorns
Host - Stuthi Vijayaraghavan, Founder, Urban Venture Labs, former analyst, McKinsey US
Investigative Business Writing in India
Nitin Sethi, Founding Editor and Member - The Reporters' Collective
V Pattabhi Ram, Co-author, The Great Bank Robbery: NPAs, Scams and the Future of Regulation
Host - Sitaraman Shankar, Former Editor, Deccan Herald
Rapid New Book Launches
Guest of Honour - Karthik Venkatesh, Executive Editor, Penguin Random House, India
Host - Sharanya Haridas, Independent Writer of Design Focused Books
The City of New Beginnings
Malini Goyal, Co-author, Unboxing Bengaluru: The City of New Beginnings
Host - V. Ravichandar, Civic Evangelist, Chairman, Feedback Consulting
2024 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony
Host - Benedict Paramanand, CEO, Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Ajai Chowdhry, Co-founder - HCL Technologies
Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group
Welcome to 11th Bangalore Business Literature Festival
V. Raghunathan, Prolific Author, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Unravelling India’s Rich Ancient Commercial History
Gurcharan Das, Curator, Editor of The Stories of Indian Business Series
Host - Raman Mahadevan, Author, Fortune Seekers: A Business History of the Nattukottai Chettiars
India’s Economy - What’s the Real Story?
Arun Maira, Former Member, Planning Commission, Author, Reimagining India’s Economy: The Road to a More Equitable Society
Host - Rishikesha Krishnan, Professor of Strategy, Former Director, IIMB
The True Face of Bengaluru and What Big Data Reveals About the City
Roopa Pai, Author, Becoming Bangalore - Stories That Shaped A Home Town
Malini Goyal, Co-author, UnBoxing Bengaluru: The City of New Beginnings, Co-founder, CEO, Unboxing BLR Foundation
Host - Benedict Paramanand, Festival Curator, Co-founder, BizLitFest, Founder, Greenlitfest
Founder Stories - Books and Writers Who Influenced and Shaped Their Journey
Amritha Mani, Founder, Amylo, Sustainable Packaging
Swaroop Madhavan, Founder, Parentof, an AI-based Cognitive Intelligence Platform
Vinay Prashanth, Co-founder, Tamaala Art Merchandise
Host - Shrabonti Bagchi, Writes on Business, Culture and Society for Mint
Understanding New-age Business Models
K Ganesh, Author, Mastering Disruption: A Practical Guide to Understanding New Age Business Models, Serial Entrepreneur, Co-founder, Big Basket, Bluestone, Portea, HomeLane, Freshmenu, HungerBox
Host - Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group
India’s Deep-Tech Playbook
Nitin Seth, Author, Human Edge In The AI Age, Co-founder, Incedo Technologies
Anil Ananthaswamy, Author, Why Machines Learn, Award-Winning Science Journalist
Aayushi Singh, Co-founder, Chief Product Officer, Magicroll.ai
Host - Arvind Saraf, Computer Scientist, Engineering Leader, Entrepreneur
2025 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony
Guest of Honour - Arun Maira, Former Member, Planning Commission, Author, Reimagining India’s Economy: The Road to a More Equitable Society
Award Sponsor - Madan Padaki, TiE Global Trustee, CEO and MD of Head Held High Services
Award Curator - Benedict Paramanand, Co-founder, BizLitFest, Founder, Greenlitfest
Jury's Insights - Rishikesha Krishnan, Professor of Strategy, Former Director, IIMB
Hema Ravichandar, Former Global Head of HR, Infosys
Malini Goyal, Co-author, UnBoxing Bengaluru: The City of New Beginnings, Co-founder, CEO, Unboxing BLR Foundation, Co-Producer of Bengaluru Rising - A Data Book
Winner's Acceptance Speech
Host - Reena Pereira, Author Management, BizLitFest Bangalore
Rapid New Book Launches
Host - J Shiruti, Content Support, BizLitFest Bangalore
