Shobha Bondre is a celebrated Marathi author who has been writing for the last twenty-five years and has published thirteen books, many of them bestsellers. Her books are also being translated into English, Hindi and Gujarati. She has written for prestigious publications like the Maharashtra Times, Loksatta, Lokprabha, Maher, Kirloskar, etc and also written dialogues for popular Marathi TV serials like Abhalmaya, Manasi, Oon Paaus and Ardhangini. She has won many awards, including the Maharashtra State Award for Best Novel in 1997, for Saata Samudrapar.
Nikhil Inamdar is a Mumbai-based financial journalist. He was a prime time news presenter with NDTV Profit and worked for several years as a television correspondent with other reputed news channels after completing a postgraduate degree in broadcast journalism from the UK. He is currently consultant columnist at Business Standard Online. Nikhil can be reached at nikhil385@gmail.com and his Twitter handle: @nik_inamdar.
Maya Bathija has been a journalist for more than a decade, contributing to magazines such as Mercedes-Benz India and Global Gujarati. Personality profiles have always been her forte and she ably headed her family magazine, the Sindhian, for thirteen years, compiling content and writing a popular column called 'MayaSpeak'. She has travelled the world to interview professionals in top positions and subject experts.
She currently travels extensively as a travel consultant with FWD Life and continues to write autobiographies and memoirs.
This collection of bestselling books Dhanda, Rokda and Paiso brings together renowned journalists Shobha Bondre, Nikhil Inamdar and Maya Bathija who delve into how empires such as Emami, Diamand Nagar and Embassy Group were built. These wonderful accounts show us the people behind these hugely successful companies and the entrepreneurial spirit and characteristics inherent to each community.
'Highly readable . . . Nifty storytelling' Business Standard
'Well-structured and engaging . . . Each of these extraordinary stories has elements of some of the characteristic Sindhi ways of doing business' Hindustan Times
'Inamdar's book offers a good insight into the ways of this remarkable community' Business Standard
