11 DECEMBER 2025
Business Unusual is a day-long conference being organised by Westland Books in partnership with the PRomise Foundation. The goal is to initiate and facilitate conversations around investment, branding, personal development and best practices with industry leaders, writers and thinkers.
1:15 – 2:10 pm | Lunch
Co-founder, Newslaundry
Founder, Zebraa Works and
Author of Like a Girl
Former Chairman, Hindustan Lever and Author of We Are Our Future
Editorial Consultant,
The Hindu Business Line
Former Director, Tata Sons,
and Bestselling Author
CFO, Imagicaa, and co-author
Rollercoaster of Hope
Analyst and
Author of Rare
Family Business Researcher
and Founder, B.A.N.G.
Programming Head,
Fever FM and Punjabi Fever
Editor-in-chief, The Voice of Fashion,
and author of The Stories We Wear
Founder, ChaptersByShibani
Somak Ghoshal
MD, Multiples Alternate Asset
Management
Westland Business is an imprint of Westland Books. As the tagline ‘Business Unusual’ indicates, the focus is on narratives that provide thoughtful, deeply researched perspectives on industry and the economy.
A blueprint for diversity hiring and management, business lessons drawn from a story of humans living in a future time, the inspiring memoir of two citydwellers turning farmers, the story of a founder who built one of the earliest product companies in India, the remarkable transformation of a local brewery into an internationally acclaimed brand—each of the books we publish is unique and topical, and platforms business leaders, founders, innovators, changemakers.
Westland Books is an award-winning Indian publisher with a diverse and exciting range of books from popular and literary fiction to business, politics, biography, spirituality, popular science, health and self-help.
Its key publishing imprints include Context, which publishes award-winning literary fiction and non-fiction; Ekada (formerly Eka), which publishes the best of contemporary writing in Indian languages and in translation; Tranquebar, home to the best new fiction from the Indian subcontinent; the eponymous Westland Sport, Westland Business and Westland Non-Fiction, and Red Panda, which publishes a range of books for children of different ages.
We are now a division of Pratilipi, where Pratilipi is an Indian online self-publishing and audiobook portal headquartered in Bangalore. Founded in 2014, the company allows users to publish and read original works such as stories, poetry, essays, and articles in twelve languages: Hindi, Urdu, English, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi and Odia.
The PRomise Foundation has curated over 50 marquee conferences and conclaves across South Asia over the past decade and manages a widely followed YouTube channel that features highlights from its events.
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