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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.

2020 Recipient

The winner of the 2020 Tata Literature Live! Business Book Award is The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India by Sunil Kant Munjal.

2020 Shortlist

In alphabetical order

Excellence Has No Borders: How a Doctorpreneur Created a World-class Cancer Hospital Chain

B. S. Ajaikumar with Hemanth Gorur
Penguin Random House

The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever

Sudhir Sitapati
Juggernaut

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

Sunil Kant Munjal
HarperCollins

2020 Longlist

Excellence Has No Borders: How a Doctorpreneur Created a World-class Cancer Hospital Chain

B. S. Ajaikumar with Hemanth Gorur
Penguin Random House

India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory

Arvind Panagariya
HarperCollins

Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the

Parmesh Shahani
Westland

The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever

Sudhir Sitapati
Juggernaut

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

Sunil Kant Munjal
HarperCollins

The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable it

Jaspreet Bindra
Penguin Random House

2020 Jury

Anil Gupta

Grassroots innovation activist; Founder, Honey Bee Network; author; visiting faculty, IIM, Ahmedabad and IIT, Bombay, and a Padma Shri awardee for management education.
Kiran Karnik

Former President of Nasscom; a key figure in the growth of India’s IT industry, Member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, and a Padma Shri awardee.
Raghunath Mashelkar

One of India’s most renowned scientists; a technocrat, activist and visionary who has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan.
Govindraj Ethiraj

Media executive and entrepreneur; Founder & Director, BOOM & IndiaSpend.
Mini Menon

Award-winning journalist and author, Co-Founder and Editor of Live History India.