Soma Das is an author and a former business journalist. Soma’s book on Founder of Sun Pharma, India’s largest pharma company, Dilip Shanghvi, The Reluctant Billionaire was nominated for Tata Literature Awards among others. A bestseller on Amazon and Relay’s for weeks, the book earned rave reviews from the media. A campus fiction Sum Thing of a Mocktale authored by her in 2007 was also a national bestseller. Currently, she is working on two more books commissioned by Penguin Random House.
Soma was a senior business journalist for over a decade in leading publications, including The Economic Times and The Financial Express. Since 2018, she has been associated with projects of international development agencies in matters related to policy research and public policy strategy.