What Is Your Book Idea?

Manish Sabharwal

Manish is co-founder of Teamlease Services, India’s largest staffing and human capital firm. Teamlease has over 350,000 employees in 5000 cities and is implementing India’s first vocational university in Gujarat and first national PPP apprenticeship program. The company has hired over 20 lac employees in the last 20 years.

Earlier he co-founded India Life, an HR services company that was acquired by NYSE-listed Hewitt associates. Consequently, he served as CEO of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) in Singapore.

Manish has been part of various central and state government committees on education, employment and employability. He has served on the Boards of the Reserve Bank of India, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and the National Skill Mission. He currently serves on the boards of Teamlease, New India Foundation, NCAER, Neev Academy, Gaja Capital, Phonepe, and Kanpur Education Society.

He is a columnist for the Indian Express. Manish got his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumnus of Shriram College, Delhi, and Mayo College, Ajmer.

Nandini Nair

Nandini Nair has been an arts and culture journalist for nearly two decades. She joins New India Foundation having spent a decade as the arts and literary editor of Open Magazine. Prior to that she worked with the magazine sections of The Hindu Business Line, The Indian Express and The Hindu. She writes on a variety of subjects from social trends to gender issues, but the bedrock of her work has always been books. At Open Magazine, she worked with a vast network of freelancers and contributors to drive India's art coverage. She has interviewed leading national and international authors over her career, both for the magazine and literature festivals. She founded a monthly book event, Talking Books Pune, to foster serious conversations in an informal setting between authors and readers. Throughout her career she has channelled her commitment to books through in-depth reviews, interviews, events, and by commissioning the same.

Over the last decade, to engage with the younger generation, and to use reading and writing as a means for critical thinking, she has taught a course Elements of Writing to postgraduate students in Delhi, Leh and Nigeria. 
She has a MA in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia University, New York.