Business Standard's stable of specialist contributors includes some of the sharpest minds writing on economics and business. Among them: Shankar Acharya, former chief economic advisor, Government of India; Deepak Lal, professor of economics, UCLA; Suman Bery, chief economist, Shell and former director-general, National Council of Applied Economic Research; Ashok Lahiri, former chief economic advisor, Government of India; Shyam Saran, chairman, National Security Advisory Board and former foreign secretary, Government of India; Ajit Balakrishnan, chairman and CEO, Rediff.com; Ajai Shukla, strategic affairs, defence and diplomacy expert and former army colonel; Shekhar Gupta, Political analyst and former editor-in-chief of The Indian Express; Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC Bank; Nitin Desai, former chief economic advisor and former under-secretary general at the United Nations; Parthasarathi Shome, former advisor to Finance Minister; Rathin Roy, director, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy; and Debashis Basu, editor, Moneylife.
It offers syndicated columns from Martin Feldstein, Kenneth Rogoff, Daniel Gros and Andrew Sheng, content from Breakingviews.com - with exclusivity in the Indian market.
In addition to two newspapers, the company also has a books division, which publishes books under the BS Books imprint.