Educated at the Universities of Calcutta, Jadavpur and Glasgow and the British Institute of Management, London, Siddhartha Ganguli who holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering and several other academic colours, is a polymath. He has most diplomatically managed a merger between engineering and technology, physiology and psychology, medicine and surgery, and management and economics. Winner of many national and international honours including the President of India Prize, he was instrumental in setting up India’s first hospital-based bioengineering unit at the University College of Medicine, University of Calcutta where he taught and did clinical research for more than twenty years. On the management front, his last two prize assignments were as: Secretary & Chief Executive, Calcutta Management Association (1974-80) and Managing Director, Prex Miniclocks Pvt. Ltd. (1980-83) before he set up Learning Club, a body-brain management boutique, which has trained thousands of people in over 900 organisations in India and its neighbouring countries. His most recent work on Avatar Ramakrishna (The ‘Real’ Ramakrishna) has earned him the most prestigious Golden Book Award 2025.