New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- The Gaja Capital Business Book Prize announced the five books shortlisted for its eighth edition. Gaja Capital instituted the prize in 2019 to encourage Indian entrepreneurs, writers and journalists to tell the story of Indian business. It rewards books that teach the reader something about India's economy, its markets and its companies, and that give the next generation of founders something to learn from.

The five books span a wide range of topics - a multinational's conduct in India, three decades of telecom rivalry, two centuries of the stock market, and the founding of two companies, Freshworks and Zomato.

All In: Memoirs of the Freshworks Founder, by Girish Mathrubootham with Pankaj Mishra. The founder's own a...