Business Leaders of Kashmir: A Series of Sucess Stories - Tapa blanda

The book is based on a weekly interview series titled Business Leaders of Kashmir, published on Greater Kashmir, a leading and the largest circulated English daily of Indian-administered Kashmir. The interviews have been conducted by Rabia Noor, former business correspondent of the organization. The series features success stories of Kashmiri people, who carved a niche in business despite hiccups and emerged as leaders in different spheres. In their interviews, the business tycoons share their success mantra and narrate their experiences in business. Besides discussing the status of various sectors of economy in Kashmir, like trade, industry, tourism, handicrafts, etc, they talk at length about their ventures, their toil and labour, strategies, achievements, role models, future plans and so on. The book can, thus, serve as inspiration for the prospective entrepreneurs.

Dr Rabia Noor is an academician, journalist and author based in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir. She has pursued her PhD, M.Phil and Master's degrees in Mass Communication and Journalism from Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir. She has worked as correspondent with English daily, Greater Kashmir, for around six years. She has covered business beat extensively during the period besides working on other beats as well, including health, education, conflict, human rights, social issues, city, culture, development, etc. Besides, she has written feature and human interest stories for some magazines and web portals. She was awarded the prestigious fellowship for female journalists, Sanjoy Ghose Fellowship (2007-’08) by Charkha Development Communication Network. Her fellowship stories were published by many reputed national newspapers and magazines that included Tribune, Yojana, Hindustan Express, In Dino, Kanz-ul-Iman, etc. She has to her credit some international publications that include books as well as research papers. She has authored monographs, titled Margaret Mitchell as a Reporter: A Case Study (ISBN 978-3-659-32034-7), Advocacy Journalism: A Study of Greater Kashmir’s Save Dal Campaign, Volume I (ISBN 978-3-659-32675-2) and Volume II (978-3-659-33126-8). She has also taught and served as Editor at Department of Journalism, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora. Her specialization includes Business Reporting, News Reporting and Print Journalism.