Gaja Capital Business
Book Prize 2022

2022 Winner

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The 2022 Gaja Business Book Prize shortlist featured a diverse selection of stories, showcasing enterprises and their leaders. Among the shortlisted books were “The Ambuja Story” by Narotam Sekhsaria, “Disrupt and Conquer: How TTK Prestige Became a Billion Dollar Company” by T.T. Jagannathan and Sandhya Mendonca, “Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico” by Harsh Mariwala and Ram Charan, and “MAVERICK EFFECT: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution” by Harish Mehta.

The Gaja Business Book Prize 2022 winner was Harish Damodaran, the National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor of The Indian Express and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is an experienced journalist and the author of “India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation.” Harish Damodaran’s winning book, “Broke to Breakthrough: The Rise of India’s Largest Private Dairy Company,” narrates the inspiring journey of Mr. RG Chandramogan and his enterprise, Hatsun Agro. It details the company’s humble beginnings of selling ice creams in pushcarts in Tamil Nadu during the 1970s, to becoming a publicly-listed company with an impressive revenue of over Rs 6,000 crores.

2022 Jury

Manish Sabharwal

Jury Chairman

Vice Chairman, Teamlease Services Limited

Imran Jafar

Executive Director, Gaja Alternative Asset Management Limited

Dr. Lakshmi Venu

Joint MD of Sundaram-Clayton Ltd

Michael Queen

Michael is a reputed successful global investment professional, currently Chairman of the University of Surrey. He was formerly Chief Executive of 3i Group plc and served as Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association. He is also serving as the Chairman of Thames Bridge Capital, where he provides strategic advisory to alternative asset managers and corporates.

Neelkanth Mishra

Chief Economist, Head of Global Research, and member of the Board in Axis Capital

Prithvi Pal Singh Haldea

Chairman, Praxis Consulting and Information Services Private Limited

Shailesh Vishnubhai Haribhakti

Chairman of DHC (Desai Haribhakti)

Upendra Kumar Sinha

Ex-Chairman, SEBI

2022 Short List

The Ambuja Story

Narotam Sekhsaria

Broke to Breakthrough: The Rise of India's Largest Private Dairy Company

Harish Damodaran

Disrupt and Conquer: How TTK Prestige Became a Billion Dollar Company

T.T. Jagannathan, Sandhya Mendonca

Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico

Harsh Mariwala, Ram Charan

MAVERICK EFFECT: The Inside Story of India's IT Revolution

Harish Mehta