Sumeet Gupta is Senior Director, FICCI where he heads Publishing, Homeland Security, Private Security, and Geospatial Technologies. He has over 19 years of experience in domains including science and technology, security, media and publishing. He was instrumental in creating the first international animation awards in India, and worked a report that formed the backbone of the second phase of FM radio privatization in India.
Sushmita Das heads the Journals Peer Review team for Taylor and Francis India. Her team handles over a hundred journals and is responsible for authenticating articles, peer review and publication. She has trained journal editors and authors on peer review systems, and has led workshops on publishing ethics, plagiarism and copyright. She has 17 years of experience in knowledge management and publishing functions.
Swati Roy is Founder and Festival Director, Bookaroo. She is passionate about children’s books and, through Bookaroo, makes books come alive for children. After organizing 27 editions of Bookaroo and spending 15 years in the business, she thinks there is no place better than this. She started with Eureka, an independent bookshop exclusively for children, in 2003 with her partner M.Venkatesh.
Thomas Abraham is Managing Director, Hachette India. He was CEO and President of Penguin India during 2003-07, before he started at Hachette. He joined the publishing industry in 1994 as an editor with Oxford University Press India. He thereafter moved to marketing and left OUP to join Dorling Kindersley as Marketing Director in 2000. He joined Penguin Books in the same position following the buyout of DK by Penguin.
Tridib Kumar Chatterjee is Managing Director of Patra Bharati Group of Publications, a major player in the Bengali-language publishing industry. He is also Chief Editor of Kishore Bharati, a children’s periodical.Tridib writes regularly in various Bengali newspapers and periodicals.
Trisha De Niyogi is Business Development and Outreach Officer at Niyogi Books, where she heads business development, strategic planning and marketing. She began her career in publishing with SAGE. She has also worked in various projects in product development, marketing and advertising with multinationals including PepsiCo,Toshiba, EY and Tesco-Trent.
Vikas Gupta is Managing Director of Wiley India and Immediate Past President of the Association of Publishers in India (API). He has led innovative product and business models for technology-driven learning solutions, research and faculty development, professional certifications and skills development. He has co-founded and led ventures in IT, medical electronics and publishing. Vikas is an ardent promoter of entrepreneurship and runs his own blog and video series to share his perspective on future business models and emerging issues in the technology, education and learning industries.
Vikas Singh is Managing Director, Pearson India. He is responsible for spearheading the overall growth of the company in the Indian education sector by driving a robust business strategy and guiding excellence to strengthen the diversifying business. He has played a crucial role in making the region emerge as one of the most significant contributors to Pearson’s global growth strategy.
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aCknoWleDgements This book is the outcome of the generosity of its 65 contributors.Almost all, agreed to contribute and most stayed the course. For every one that didn’t, there was someone else who stepped into the breach and delivered to unimaginably short deadlines. It would be no exaggeration to say that this book wouldn’t have been possible, in the schedule we planned for, without their extraordinary support. A special thank you to each one of them.Their collective heft has made the book bigger than the sum of its many parts.
The All About Book Publishing team were equally cooperative and worked hard and long.Without their persistent and polite persuasions, we would not have had the content on time. I would especially like to thank Shweta Khurana,Varsha Verma and Smita Dwivedi, for their ever willing and can do attitude.
Misha Oberoi Chakravarty, seamlessly designed the layout and gave the book a striking cover.Thanks to her, to Mallar Chakravarty for typesetting and to Shalini Sekhar for editorial support. Priyanka Misra went beyond the call of duty to ensure accuracy, consistency and completion. I cannot thank her enough for her publishing support for this project. Giving the book a befitting face and frame would hav
e been impossible to do without all of them.
I give grateful thanks to the eminent individuals who gave testimonials and recommendations, ensuring strong tailwinds for the book’s takeoff.
I would also like to acknowledge Cordite Publishing Inc., Cordite Poetry Review 55, for allowing us to use excerpts of S.Anand’s interview.
My employer,Taylor & Francis, was a supportive force, that encouraged me on this journey.
nitasha devasar is Managing Director,Taylor & Francis India. In her current role she focuses equally on business development and acquiring high quality academic content from South Asia, for global markets. An academic publisher with over two decades of experience in leading teams and managing content, she was Academic Publishing Director at Oxford University Press India from 2000-2012. In 2012 she set up PublishInc., a consulting firm that partnered with academic societies, universities and government agencies for effective outreach of quality research. She has been a publishing consultant with the Government of Sikkim, Population Foundation of India and Ambedkar University of Delhi, where she developed the concept for the first fulltime teaching course in publishing.
Nitasha holds several industry positions and is currently Vice President,Association of Publishers in India (API). She sits on the FICCI Publishing Committee and the Board of the Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation. In these roles Nitasha works with peers in the industry to impact government policy on key issues relating to publishing and garners support for causes like copyright awareness.
Nitasha is Advisor to the Asian Women’s Leadership Forum in India and was featured as one of Asia’s Women of Substance 2017, by Channel News Asia (CNA). https://youtu.be/c3IhJp8fHrM
She is part of the Taylor and Francis Group Women Leadership Programme and its Women in Publishing group, and mentors aspiring leaders within the organization.
She writes occasionally, on life in today’s India and on her leadership journey, and is currently working on a book on the topic. Her articles
can, most often, be found in The Hindu.
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