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Tata Literature Live! Business Book Award

The Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Award recognises the best business writing in the Indian literary space.

2021 Recipient

The 2021 winner of the Tata Literature Live! Business Book of The Year Award is Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy by Tamal Bandyopadhyay (Roli Books).

2021 Shortlist

Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

  • Sumant Sinha
  • HarperCollins

Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy

  • Tamal Bandyopadhyay
  • Roli Books

Spring: Bouncing Back From Rejection

  • Ambi Parameswaran
  • Westland

2021 Longlist

Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

  • Sumant Sinha
  • HarperCollins

Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy

  • Tamal Bandyopadhyay
  • Roli Books

Spring: Bouncing Back From Rejection

  • Ambi Parameswaran
  • Westland

The Economics of Small Things

  • Sudipta Sarangi
  • Penguin Random House

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning

  • Gautam Baid
  • HarperCollins

The Ventilator Project

  • Srikant Sastri & Amitabha Bandyopadhyay
  • Pan Macmillan

2021 Jury

  • Arun Kumar

    Chairman and CEO, KPMG India
  • Emmanuel David

    Strategic Leader, Influencer and Coach; Former Director Tata Management Training Centre
  • Errol D'Souza

    Professor of Economics and Director, IIM Ahmedabad
  • Shaili Chopra

    Business journalist, author, entrepreneur and founder of SheThePeople TV
  • Shinjini Kumar

    Corporate leader, entrepreneur and co-founder of SALT, a financial services app focused on women

Past Recipients

The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India

2020

  • Sunil Kant Munjal
  • HarperCollins

Leaprogging To Pole-Vaulting : Creating the Magic of Radical and Sustainable Transformation

2019

  • RA Mashelkar and Ravi Pandit
  • Penguin Random House

The Billionaire Raj

2018

  • James Crabtree
  • Harper Collins

Advice and Dissent

2017

  • YV Reddy
  • Harper Collins

Grassroots Innovation

2016

  • Anil K Gupta
  • Random House

Restart

2015

  • Mihir S Sharma
  • Vintage Books

Orbit Shifting Innovation

2014

  • Rajiv Narang & Devika Devaiah
  • RHI