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Chiki Sarkar

Indian book publisher (born 1977)

Chiki Sarkar is a book publisher from Kolkata born in 1979. She is the lead founder of Juggernaut Books.2

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Early life and education

Chiki Sarkar was born into a Bengali family, the daughter of Aveek Sarkar, a journalist 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.

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Career

Occupation: publisher.4

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Chiki Sarkar (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • BornKolkata5
  • CitizenshipIndia6

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