BWI: Chetan Bhagat in a Live Chat with Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO Rediff.com and the Author of ‘The Wave Rider’

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Rediff.com India Ltd
Friday, November 30, 2012 04:30 PM IST (11:00 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, People; Business: Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Publishing & printing; Technology
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Chetan Bhagat in a Live Chat with Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO Rediff.com and the Author of 'The Wave Rider'
Watch the webcast on Rediff.com on Monday 3rd December at 3:00 p.m. IST

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Friday, November 30, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- India's leading portal Rediff.com's Founder, Chairman and CEO, Ajit Balakrishnan will chat with Chetan Bhagat on his recently released book 'The Wave Rider', published by Pan Macmillan India. He will share the fascinating story of how the Information Age came into India and will reveal the everyday battles his then fledgling company rediff.com had to fight to stay relevant at all times.

In his book Ajit Balakrishnan says 'It is my attempt to bring an understanding of how the world has been undergoing a transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. The information revolution came to the media first and the disruption in the education industry has just started. I believe that the revolution will help deliver affordable education, healthcare and faster provision of justice.'

Chetan Bhagat, author of six best-selling books, Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition (2011) and What Young India Wants (2012), will interact live with Ajit Balakrishnan and discuss The Wave Rider and the information age that we are living in.

The online event will be streamed live at 3.00 p.m. IST on Monday, 3 December. Participants can post questions on the discussion board before 12 p.m. on 3 December. The best question will be selected and asked by Chetan Bhagat during the live chat. The five most interesting questions will receive an autographed copy of Ajit Balakrishnan's The Wave Rider.

To watch the live webcast click http://rediff.ly/thewaveriderchat on 3 December at 3.00 p.m.

About Rediff.com India Ltd:

Rediff.com India Ltd. (NASDAQ: REDF) is one of the premier worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians worldwide. Founded in 1996, Rediff.com is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and New York.

About Pan Macmillan India:

Pan Macmillan, one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. Set up in 1998 with full scale operations from 2010, Pan Macmillan India is one of the top five publishers in India today. Pan Macmillan India was publishing only under the Picador imprint until 2011, but has now added two new imprints, Pan and Macmillan, to cover its local commercial fiction and non-fiction publishing. For more information visit www.panmacmillan.co.in.

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KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, PEOPLE, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, MEDIA, PUBLISHING, TECHNOLOGY

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