Nationality Indian Name Rashmi Bansal Alma mater IIM Ahmedabad Role Writer | Occupation Author Residence Navi Mumbai Known for Books | |
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Education Sophia College, Mumbai, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Books Stay Hungry Stay Fooli, Arise - Awake: The Inspir, Follow Every Rainbow Similar People Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Preeti Shenoy, Ajit Balakrishnan | ||
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Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer, entrepreneur and a youth expert.As of 2016, she is the author of seven books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 copies, a record for books published in India.
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- Pen pals rashmi bansal interviews kovid gupta
- English books chetan bhagat amish tripathi sanjeev kapoor narendra modi rashmi bansal and more
- Biography
- Publications
- References
English books chetan bhagat amish tripathi sanjeev kapoor narendra modi rashmi bansal and more
Biography
Bansal grew up at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in South Mumbai where her father was an astrophysicist. After attending St Joseph's High School in Colaba, she studied at Sophia College for Women before earning an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
On graduating from IIM, she first worked as a brand manager for the Times of India. After developing a youth page for The Independent, she went on to found JAM (Just Another Magazine), a youth magazine in collaboration with her husband Yatin Bansal.
She was inspired to write Stay Hungry Stay Foolish (2008) by Rakesh Basant, a professor at IIM Ahmedabad who suggested she should cover the experiences of 25 entrepreneurs from the school. It turned out to be so successful that 100,000 copies were sold in the first 10 months, eventually recording sales of over 350,000. Her next book, Connect the Dots (2010), traced the progress of entrepreneurs without the MBA qualification. It also proved to be a best seller. Her I Have a Dream (2011) focused on social entrepreneurs, introducing an interesting mix of English and Hindi, popularly known as Hinglish, in an attempt to add a more realistic account of her personalities.
In an interview with Heather Timmons of the New York Times, Bansal explained she decided to use Hinglish as it provides a more direct representation of people's voices and makes them more real. More recently, Bansal has written another four best-sellers on entrepreneurs: Poor Little Rich Slum, Follow Every Rainbow, Take Me Home and Arise Awake. All are concerned with entrepreneurship with advice on how to succeed. She frequently illustrates her ideas with accounts of those who have risen to unexpected heights.