Chiki sarkar biography examples

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Chiki Sarkar
Age: 40    
Publisher, Juggernaut Books

Chiki Sarkar knows well that books are perhaps the last thing on people’s mind these days.

More so at a time when a smartphone boom, fuelled by high-speed internet, has made it easy to access millions of videos at a click.

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“I don’t want to be a number one. I want to be around because there is always a need for books and story-telling,” says Sarkar, publisher of Juggernaut Books, India’s first smartphone publisher.

The company was founded in 2015 by Sarkar and Durga Raghunath, a former CEO of Network 18 Digital. The latter stepped down as Juggernaut’s CEO last February.

Much of the funding came from investors, including Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, Fabindia promoter William Bissell, and Boston Consulting Group’s India Managing Director Neeraj Aggarwal, who put in o