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 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 edi ...

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

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

-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 Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in ...

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

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

. In 2011 Chiki Sarkar became the publisher at

Penguin Books India Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, 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 ...

. In 2013, publishers Penguin Books and

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 The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...

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 *

2011–2013 *

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ...

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 Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. After the exit of Vishal S ...

, Neeraj Aggarwal and

Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational Telecommunications in India, telecommunications company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. ...

. 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the ...

Esther Duflo Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she w ...

William Dalrymple William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (born 20 March 1965) is a Delhi-based Scottish people, Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, broadcaster and critic. He spends nine months of each year on his goat farm in India. He i ...

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. ...

Aditya Tiwari Aditya Tiwari is an Indian poet and LGBT rights activist. He has also worked as a journalist and producer at the BBC. Life He was born in Jabalpur, India and completed his primary education at St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School. He then a ...

* Nandini Sundar * Perumal Murugan *

Shyam Saran Shyam Saran (born 4 September 1946) is an Indian career diplomat. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1970 and rose to become the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary he served as ...

* Manu S. Pillai * Rajdeep Sardesai *

Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), also known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali language, Bengali), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He is popularly called the ...

Twinkle Khanna Twinkle Khanna (born 29 December 1973) is an Indian author and former actress. A daughter of actors Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna, she made her acting debut with a leading role in the film '' Barsaat'' (1995). After playing the leading lady ...

Sunny Leone Karenjit "Karen" Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone, is a Canadian American actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She was named ''Penthouse (magazine), Penthouse'' Pet of the Year in 2003, was a co ...

*Yasser Usman *

Rajat Gupta Rajat Kumar Gupta (; born ) is an Indian-American business executive who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012, he was convicted of insider trading and ...

*Abdullah Kha
Abdullah Khan, author of ‘Patna Blues’, on his long struggle to become a writer
*

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 chair ...

Anirban Mahapatra Anirban Mahapatra is an Indian microbiologist and the editorial director of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) since 2022. He is the author of two popular science books. Earlier, he led an editorial team at the American Chemical Societ ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarkar, Chiki Indian book publishers (people) Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from Kolkata Women book publishers (people) Indian women publishers Businesswomen from West Bengal 20th-century Indian businesswomen 20th-century Indian businesspeople 21st-century Indian businesswomen 21st-century Indian businesspeople Sarkar family