Adil Rustomjee is the author of ‘Running Behind Lakshmi: The Search for Wealth in India’s Stock Market’.

After a career in international development and markets, he discovered his life’s work as a chronicler of India’s stock markets when he came upon the archives of the Bombay Stock Exchange, and realised that a substantial account had yet to be written about an equity market that was over two centuries old. He then made it his mission to narrate the market’s past, outline its methods, and detail its participants.

Adil Rustomjee has degrees in commerce and management from the universities of Madras and Bombay. He holds graduate degrees in international relations from Johns Hopkins, and in business from Yale.

He is also a student of military history and strategy.