Nandini Lakshman is a Mumbai-based business journalist and editor and has spent the last three decades chronicling India’s economic ascent in urban and rural landscapes. She has worked at major Indian newspapers like The Economic Times and Business Standard, and international magazines like Asiaweek, Businessweek and Time.   She is currently a consultant to the World Bank and is a contributor to the University of Pennsylvania's online business journal Knowledge@Wharton, and the Hong Kong-based India Business Law Journal. She has a BSc from Mumbai University.