Chiki Sarkar is a book publisher from Kolkata born in 1979 . She is a co-founder of

Juggernaut Books Juggernaut Books (informally Juggernaut) is digital book publishing house headquartered in New Delhi, India. The publisher emphasizes on short length books written by new writers. It also allows writers to self-publish their books through their ...

Background

Chiki Sarkar was born into a Bengali family, the daughter of

Aveek Sarkar Aveek Sarkar (Bengali: অভীক সরকার; born 9 June 1945) is an Indian newspaper promoter and proprietor. He is the present Chairman of Press Trust of India and Vice Chairman and Editor Emeritus of ABP Group. Previously he was edit ...

, a journalist and newspaper proprietor, and his wife Rakhi Sarkar. Aveek Sarkar belongs to the family which runs the

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

-based

Ananda Bazaar Patrika ABP Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922. History The company in recent years did mass layoffs at various times. Current assets Newspapers * ''Anandabazar Patrika'' – ...

Media Group, which was first founded in 1876.

Career

She started her career in publishing with the London-based company

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. She worked there for seven years, and later moved to Delhi in 2006 and joined

Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

. In 2011 Chiki Sarkar became the publisher at

Penguin Books India Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

merged and Sarkar was made the India publishing head. Two years later, in 2015, she set up her own publishing company,

. A

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Young Global Leader, Sarkar is also a Fortune India's Most Powerful Women,Forbes 2018 W-power trailblazers and Economic Times's Rising Women Leaders of 2015.

Career timeline

1999–2006 *

2006–2011 founding publisher *

Penguin Books India Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Penguin Random House Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House. On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...

2013–2015 *

founder-publisher 2015–present

Juggernaut Books

In 2015, Sarkar set up her own publication house,

, a publishing company with its own app. Juggernaut's investors include

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, Neeraj Aggarwal and

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. The Juggernaut app has its own writing platform for amateur writers to upload their stories directly. Juggernaut has published books written by the following authors: *

Abhijit Banerjee Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Priz ...

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Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ''The God of Small Things'' (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. S ...

Nandini Sundar Nandini Sundar (born 1967) is an Indian professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics whose research interests include political sociology, law, and inequality. She is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010. She ...

Perumal Murugan Perumal Murugan (born 1966) is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written twelve novels, six collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry. Five of his novels have been translated into Eng ...

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Manu S. Pillai Manu S. Pillai (born 1990) is an Indian writer and popular historian.Known for his works on the Travancore monarchy and the history of Princely India, he is most famous for his debut book, The Ivory Throne, which is about Rani Sethu Lakshmi ...

Rajdeep Sardesai Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and an anchor of India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 ...

Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali), is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain w ...

Twinkle Khanna Twinkle Khanna (also known as Tina Jatin Khanna; born on 29 December) is an Indian author, columnist, interior designer, film producer and a former film actress. In 2015, she released her first non-fiction book, "Mrs Funnybones" which was decla ...

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*Yasser Usman *

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*Abdullah Kha
Abdullah Khan, author of ‘Patna Blues’, on his long struggle to become a writer
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Tony Joseph Tony Joseph is an Indian journalist and former editor of ''Businessworld'' magazine. He is also the author of the best-selling book '' Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From'' (2018). Until 2018, he was also the chairman ...

External links

TED-Talk: Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers

References

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