03Jan
When Chiki Sarkar left Penguin Random House in April 2015, everyone knew she was starting her own company, but not what she’d do differently. Five months later, she announced Juggernaut, a mobile-first publishing firm. While the focus is digital, it hasn’t abandoned the printed book, and the 2016 catalogue has a line-up of impressive names, including Arundhati Roy, Svetlana Alexievich and William Dalrymple. Her investors, too, pack quite a punch — Fab India promoter William Bissell, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and Boston Consulting Group CEO Neeraj Aggarwal. She’s said readers can look forward to innovations like “serialized novels, appointment reading and other experiments to draw in intensive phone-users who may not be reading anything in the form of a book”