Author: Aditi Roy Ghatak
Title: Down Lyons Range, 100 years of the Calcutta Stock Exchange; In Full Bloom – the history of the Agrihorticultural Society, released by the then President of India
Bio: Aditi Roy Ghatak, who set standards in economic journalism in the eighties with her analyses of the process of economic development and corporate growth, especially in the Statesman, is among the leading economic commentators in India today. After an exciting career with the Statesman, as leader writer and business editor, she ventured into niche consulting in 1994 with offices in Mumbai and Delhi. The group of consultants working with the syndication comprises specialists in the field of economic analysis, communications, design, accounting, human resource development, media, environment and law. Her articles and those from her syndication have appeared in most leading newspapers in the country. Miss Roy Ghatak is currently doing research for a book on Lakshmi Mittal and working for the Right to Information movement in India.

ARG Syndication's operational field covers critical facets of the Indian and Asian development dilemma in the main, beginning with corporate and economic development and the dilemma around sustaining 21st century development strategy in an Indian milieu of poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation on the one hand and restructuring of industry and commerce for competitive times on the other. The Syndication is also actively involved in developing human resources with specific reference to eastern India through a proprietary system developed by it, titled The UPPER CASE.

Aditi Roy Ghatak has written four books: Down Lyons Range, 100 years of the Calcutta Stock Exchange, released by the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on June 24, 2008, Partnerships for Progress – the Assocham history released by Dr Manmohan Singh; In Full Bloom – the history of the Agrihorticultural Society, released by the then President of India, Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma; and a profile of Indian tea for the Tea Board and edited a significant work on philately published by the Philatelic Congress of India. She has also worked on a theory of science and society interaction for greater social benefits on behalf of ICI. Besides, she edits books for the Oxford University Press and Sage Publications and is currently Editor of the Calcutta Management Association Journal, the Contemporary Manager.

She has been an invitee to the finance minister’s annual economic editor's conference in India as has been invited by the governments/industry associations of United States, Germany and Italy for interaction on economic issues. Her other travels include Canada, the U.K. (where she has researched her book on Indian tea) Thailand, France (as consultant to a leading strategic identity creators, Shining Strategic Identity), Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Singapore, Maldives (where she worked on a socio-economic analyses of the island nation for the Taj Group), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Korea, Bangladesh, Oman, the UAE, Egypt and Jordan.