Lakshmi Kaul: Bharat Ek Khoj

Lakshmi Kaul who worked as Senior VP at global development consultancy firm Mott Macdonald has put in her papers and to take over as the CEO of Grin, a media publishing company and think tank.  She is also the contributing editor and Advisory Board member of Global Order. Kaul, a former resident of the UK for over two decades, moved to New Delhi in 2022. Laxmi has had a distinguished career across India and the United Kingdom. She has held many key roles- as political aide to the British Member of Parliament Bob Blackman, she was the Head of the CII in the UK, a board member of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, the Manchester-India Partnership, and the West Midlands-India Partnership. Kaul seeks to vigorously expand Grin’s publishing programme in India with Penguin Random House India and around the world. Kaul will build a curated team not only for Grin’s own expansive publishing programme, but also for books which are a better fit elsewhere, and will craft a strategy where Grin is also able to guide books to other publishers for publication. For the next phase of Grin, Kaul and her team are clear that they take inspiration from uniquely Bharatiya sources — the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust created by Srila Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, and the Gita Press in India. Also well known as a social activist, Kaul will also explore how to translate the books Grin publishes into audio-visual adventures (films, documentaries etc.) for audiences at home and around the world. An ardent music lover, she was the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Festival in the UK in 2016.