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Aditi Roy Ghatak, who set standards in economic journalism in the eighties with her analyses of the process of economic development and corporate growth, is among the leading economic commentators in India today. After an exciting career with the Statesman, as a leader writer and business editor (with which she continues her association as a contributor), she ventured into consulting in 1994 in areas that she acquired expertise in during her two decades in journalism.

ARG Syndication (1993-2021), which she set up as a knowledge resource company, focused on research and analysis and provides content to selected websites on industry, science and technology and business strategy. Her 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.

Aditi prepared the main document for the 11th National Conference of the National HRD Network Kolkata. In recent times, climate change and Indian agriculture have been central to much of the syndication's and her work. She puts together Farmers' Forum (http://farmersforum.in/), a magazine on Indian agriculture, published by the Bharatiya Krishak Samaj; has been a contributor to Climate Home News, to http://indiaclimatedialogue.net/ and is India correspondent for Development + Cooperation (D+C); https://www.dandc.eu/. In 2022, she edited a major book on HR by Dr Arvind Agrawal and Dr T. V Rao, Leaders in the Making: The crucible of change-makers in HR.

Aditi has also helped develop human resources with specific reference to eastern India through a proprietary system developed by it: The UPPER CASE, skilling people in communications.

Aditi Roy Ghatak has written six books: Howrah Bridge: an icon in steel, released on February 3, 2018, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Howrah Bridge, released by the mayors of the twin cities of Kolkata and Howrah; Amicus Curiae, the centenary history of Khaitan & Co. Solicitors, in 2012, the book released in Mumbai by Anand Mahindra; Down Lyons Range,100 years of the Calcutta Stock Exchange, released by the then West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on June 24, 2008, Partnerships for Progress - Assocham's 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 of India. Leaders in the Making: The crucible of change-makers in HR was released in 2022.

She has edited a significant work on philately published by the Philatelic Congress of India and worked on a theory of science and society interaction for greater social benefits on behalf of ICI. Besides, she has edited books for the Oxford University Press and Sage Publications and has been Editor of the Calcutta Management Association Journal, the Contemporary Manager. She also taught at the Statesman Print Journalism School.

Aditi Roy Ghatak has been an invitee to the finance minister's annual economic editor's conference in India and has been invited by the governments/industry associations of the United States, Germany and Italy for interaction on economic issues. Her other travels include Australia, Canada, the U.K. (where she has researched her book on Indian tea) Spain, Turkey, France (as a consultant to a leading strategic identity creator, Shining Strategic Identity), Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Bhutan, Maldives (where she worked on a socio-economic analysis of the island nation for the Taj Group), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Macau, Oman, the UAE, Egypt and Jordan.

In 2020, she founded a Citizen Innovator Initiative #GiveALittle #EktuDeen to deliver relief to the Covid/Cyclone affected. The body continues to serve underprivileged children through education, nutrition and health services.

 





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