WHEN I WAS 25

 By : SHAILI CHOPRA

Prominent leaders from different spheres share secrets of what they did at 25 and how that transformed their leadership horizon

When I Was 25 is a book about leaders when they were 25. The youth will immediately be drawn to it as they’d relate to that period of life much better. It includes careers graphs and how these successful personalities reached their current success from when they were 25. The list of people who have been profiled include Adi Godrej, KP Singh, Rajdeep Sardesai, Dimple Kapadia,P Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor,Indra Noori,Zia Mody to name a few.

 The book is different than others on profiles of prominent leaders as it addresses the youth directly and imparts valuable lessons on how to get to the top—as opposed to simply tell the stories of people already at the top.

 About the author

Shaili Chopra is one of India’s top television editor-presenters. She hosts her own video blog TheShailiChopraREPORT. She has been the Senior Editor and Lead Anchor at ET NOW, the Economic Times Business News Channel and earlier with NDTV.

Shaili anchored the 9 pm primetime slots and conducted the big exclusive interviews of people like Warren Buffett, George Soros, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, PepsiCo’s boss Indra Nooyi, Microsoft’s head Steve Ballmer and many more.

In 2012, Shaili received India’s biggest journalism honour The Ramnath Goenka Award for best in business journalism. She also won the News Television Award for the Best Reporter in India in 2007 and later in 2008, her business-golf show Business on Course, won the Best Show Award. She also won the Media Foundation Best Business Anchor Award for 2010 and in the same year the Federation of Indian Industry gave her the Young Women’s Achiever Award for contribution to media. 

She was awarded the Young Indian Leader fellowship by the Spanish Government in April 2013.

Shaili’s previous book THE BIG CONNECT published by Random House India earlier this year garnered rave reviews and coverage across media in the country. This is her second book with Random House India.