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

Background

Chiki Sarkar was born into a Bengali family, the daughter of Aveek Sarkar, a journalist and newspaper proprietor, and his wife Rakhi Sarkar. Aveek Sarkar belongs to the family which runs the Kolkata-based Ananda Bazaar Patrika Media Group, which was first founded in 1876.

Career

She started her career in publishing with the London-based company Bloomsbury Publishing. She worked there for seven years, and later moved to Delhi in 2006 and joined Random House. In 2011 Chiki Sarkar became the publisher at Penguin Books India. In 2013, publishers Penguin Books and Random House merged and Sarkar was made the India publishing head. Two years later, in 2015, she set up her own publishing company, Juggernaut Books.

A World Economic Forum 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

• Bloomsbury Publishing 1999–2006
• Random House 2006–2011 founding publisher
• Penguin Books India 2011–2013
• Penguin Random House 2013–2015
• Juggernaut Books founder-publisher 2015–present

Juggernaut Books

In 2015, Sarkar set up her own publication house, Juggernaut Books, a publishing company with its own app. Juggernaut's investors include Nandan Nilekani, Neeraj Aggarwal and Bharti Airtel.

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, Esther Duflo
• William Dalrymple
• Arundhati Roy
• Aditya Tiwari
• Nandini Sundar
• Perumal Murugan
• Shyam Saran
• Manu S. Pillai
• Rajdeep Sardesai
• Sourav Ganguly
• Twinkle Khanna
• Sunny Leone
• Yasser Usman
• Rajat Gupta
• Abdullah Khan Abdullah Khan, author of ‘Patna Blues’, on his long struggle to become a writer
• Tony Joseph
• Anirban Mahapatra

Juggernaut books has stopped functioning since 2020.

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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25. Dalrymple, William; Anand, Anita (11 December 2016). Kohinoor: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond. New Delhi: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228086.
26. Roy, Arundhati; Cusack, John (5 August 2016). Things That Can and Cannot Be Said. Juggernaut. ISBN 9788193284100.
27. Tiwari, Aditya (2023). Over the Rainbow: India's Queer Heroes. Juggernaut. ISBN 9789353451752.
28. Sundar, Nandini (17 October 2016). The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar. New Delhi: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228000.
29. results, search (30 October 2017). The Goat Thief. Translated by Raman, N. Kalyan. S.l.: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228499.
30. Saran, Shyam (15 August 2017). How India Sees The World: From Kautilya to Modi: Kautilya to the 21st Century. Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228406.
31. Sardesai, Rajdeep (15 October 2017). Democracy's XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story. S.l.: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228482.
32. Ganguly, Sourav (24 February 2018). A Century is not Enough: My Roller-coaster Ride to Success. S.l.: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228567.
33. Khanna, Twinkle (8 November 2016). The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad. Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228055.
34. Leone, Sunny (6 June 2016). Sweet Dreams. Juggernaut. ISBN 9788193237229.
35. Usman, Yasser (31 March 2018). Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood's Bad Boy. S.l.: Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228581.
36. Gupta, Rajat. Mind Without Fear. Juggernaut Books.
37. Joseph, Tony. "New reports clearly confirm 'Arya' migration into India".

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