BOOKS BY NANDA KISHORE BANDA
From enterprise strategy and artificial intelligence to Vedanta, Indian society, forgotten resistance and the forces that transformed Indian cinema, these books pursue one purpose: making difficult ideas clear without making them shallow.
Explore practical business thinking, Indic spiritual inquiry, India's unfinished debates, historical fiction and the creative revolutions that changed the Indian screen.
About the Author
Author, enterprise strategist and founder of Intellectra Labs
Nanda Kishore Banda is an author, enterprise strategist and founder of Intellectra Labs. His writing moves across business strategy, artificial intelligence, Vedanta, Indian philosophy, history, society and cinema. Although the subjects vary, the method remains consistent: examine difficult ideas seriously, explain them clearly and invite readers to think beyond inherited conclusions.
01 · BUSINESS, STRATEGY & AI
Making complex intelligence useful to leaders.
Practical books on artificial intelligence, agentic systems, enterprise strategy, profitable growth and the changing work of leadership—written in the language of business decisions.
Business Strategies for Epic Profit Growth
Revenue can grow while profit quietly disappears. Profit Surge shows leaders how to expose margin leakage, sharpen commercial choices and align pricing, portfolios, channels and execution around growth that actually strengthens the P&L.
80 Essential AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Concepts—Explained in Plain English
AI conversations move quickly—and unexplained terminology leaves too many leaders dependent on specialists. This practical dictionary translates 80 essential AI, machine-learning and data-science concepts into plain business language for better questions, decisions and investments.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating AI Agents and an Agentic Roadmap for FMCG and CPG Organizations of Every Size
Move beyond AI demonstrations and design agents that perform real business work. This practical guide helps FMCG and CPG leaders map use cases, create agentic workflows, establish governance and build a realistic enterprise roadmap.
02 · SACRED IMAGINATION & PHILOSOPHY
Returning to India's philosophical inheritance with curiosity.
Stories, symbols and philosophical questions drawn from India's spiritual and philosophical traditions—approached with reverence, imagination and a willingness to examine mystery.
Idol Worship and the Intelligence of Form
If the divine is infinite, why approach it through an image? God Has a Form moves beyond easy accusations of superstition to examine murti worship as a sophisticated language of attention, symbolism, presence and sacred relationship.
Ten Mysteries Hidden in Indian Tradition: When Myth Becomes a Language
India's strangest sacred beings were never merely decorative fantasies. Through ten remarkable figures, Beyond Myth reveals how traditional forms encoded ideas about power, protection, consciousness, transformation and the boundaries between worlds.
Vedanta for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Anxiety and Algorithms
Artificial intelligence is learning to imitate human thought—but have human beings understood who is thinking? This modern introduction to Vedanta connects the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita with anxiety, ambition, algorithms, identity and consciousness.
From Vedanta, Buddhism and Confucius to Marx, Nietzsche and Ayn Rand
Civilisations did not inherit one answer to truth, freedom, morality or the good life. This accessible journey connects Vedanta, Buddhism and Confucius with Marx, Nietzsche, Ayn Rand and other traditions that taught humanity how to think.
Forthcoming
Karna: The Final Trial
Forthcoming
A Hero, His Choices and the Court Beyond Kurukshetra
Forthcoming from the Indic Spiritual & Philosophical Library: after death, Karna must answer not for the circumstances of his birth, but for the choices he made when loyalty, resentment and dharma pulled in different directions.
03 · HISTORY, SOCIETY & IDEAS
Entering contested questions without surrendering complexity.
Evidence-led books about the texts, institutions, identities and arguments that have shaped India—designed to invite thought rather than demand agreement.
Caste, Gender, Dharma—and the Battle Over India's Most Controversial Text
Few Indian texts are condemned, defended and quoted as fiercely as the Manusmriti. This evidence-led examination separates text from mythology, history from polemic and inherited law from the modern constitutional order.
How Birth, Power and History Shaped Inequality Across India
India does not have one caste system repeated everywhere. Many Indias, Many Castes traces how region, land, politics, religion, conversion, gender and local history produced different structures of hierarchy—and different struggles for dignity.
Savarkar and Gandhi — Strength, Conscience, and the Meaning of India
Savarkar and Gandhi imagined strength, freedom and India through radically different moral worlds. This balanced intellectual confrontation examines two compelling visions without reducing either thinker to a slogan, saint or villain.
04 · CINEMA, CRAFT & INFLUENCE
Reading Indian cinema through the people who rewrote its language.
Books on Indian film direction, performance, cinematography, sound and the creative revolutions that changed what audiences could see, hear and feel on screen.
Eleven Directors Who Rewired Indian Cinema
Indian cinema did not evolve gently—it was repeatedly rewired by filmmakers willing to break its visual, emotional and commercial rules. Reel Revolutions examines eleven directors who changed what Indian films could see, say and become.
Fifteen Screen Legends Who Rewrote Indian Cinema
Some actors deliver great performances; a rarer few change what screen acting itself can be. This book examines fifteen legends whose faces, bodies, silences and choices rewrote the emotional grammar of Indian cinema.
05 · FORGOTTEN RESISTANCE & INDIC FICTION
Recovering marginalised histories through serious historical and mythic fiction.
Historical novels and Indic fiction that recover suppressed resistance stories and reopen epic inheritance—where environment, memory and courage meet on their own terms.
The Khasi Woman Who Turned Water into Resistance
History remembers armies and treaties more readily than the woman who turned an ordinary act into resistance. Set in the Khasi Hills, this historical novel recovers Ka Phan Nonglait's courage from the margins of colonial memory.
The Memory War
A forgotten warrior, a sealed inheritance and a battle over who controls the past. Babruvāhana: The Final Vault transforms an overlooked Mahabharata figure into an Indic thriller about memory, lineage and buried power.
Forthcoming
Titumir: The Bamboo Fortress
Forthcoming
A Novel of Resistance in Bengal
Forthcoming as Book 2 of The Unwritten Resistance: peasant suffering, religious reform and political defiance converge when a bamboo fortress in Bengal confronts Company artillery—and a resistance story long marginalised enters wider memory.
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