Books Featuring Kunwer Sachdev
Kunwer Sachdev, the founder of Su-Kam Power Systems and widely known as the “Inverter Man of India,” is profiled and cited in several published books — spanning premier management institutions, peer-reviewed academic publishers, and mainstream educational reference works. This page consolidates the primary book references, with direct Google Books links and book covers so readers can verify each mention on the actual printed page.
1. IIMA — Managers Who Make A Difference
Prof. T V Rao · Random House India · 2010 · IIMA Business Books series · ISBN 9788184001372
In the flagship IIMA Business Books series, Prof. T V Rao — the founder of India’s HRD movement and one of India’s most respected management academics — profiles Kunwer Sachdev as a manager who makes a difference. Rao credits the profile to the late Prof. C K Prahalad, who identified Sachdev and Su-Kam as a great example of Indian innovation during his 2007 seminar “The Next Practices: Innovations from India” at Ahmedabad Management Association.
“Kunwer Sachdev, Founder and Managing Director of Su-Kam, is a great example of one who turns every problem into an opportunity and converts it into business through his creative talent … Today Su-Kam is the leading power back-up solution provider in India, with its consistent focus on technological innovation.”
— T V Rao, IIMA — Managers Who Make A Difference, Random House India, 2010
2. Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness
Editors: M K Nandakumar, Sanjay Jharkharia, Abhilash S Nair · Springer India · 2014 · Flexible Systems Management series · ISBN 9788132216674
This peer-reviewed academic volume in Springer’s Flexible Systems Management series references Kunwer Sachdev on page 81 in its analysis of Indian SME leadership and organisational innovation. Being cited in a Springer peer-reviewed academic book places Kunwer Sachdev’s work in the formal literature on Indian management and SME innovation — alongside other case studies used to teach organisational flexibility, strategic agility and competitive advantage in Indian business schools worldwide.
“Kunwer Sachdev was among the Top 10 SME (Small & Medium Enterprises) Entrepreneurs awarded by SME Channels…”
— Nandakumar, Jharkharia & Nair (eds), Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness, Springer India, 2014, page 81
3. Complete Guide for MAT & Other MBA Entrance Exams (4th Ed.)
Disha Experts · Disha Publications · 2019 · Page 32
In this widely-used MBA entrance exam reference book, Kunwer Sachdev is included in the general awareness section on Indian business leaders. The book lists him alongside some of India’s most well-known industrialists — a form of recognition that reflects broad, lasting industry impact.
“Kunwer Sachdev — Founder & MD, Su-Kam Power Systems … Lakshmi Mittal — Chairman & CEO, ArcelorMittal … Pramod Bhasin — Founder, Genpact … Sanjay Kirloskar — CMD, Kirloskar Brothers…”
— Disha Experts, Complete Guide for MAT & Other MBA Entrance Exams (4th Edition), Disha Publications, 2019, page 32
4. India Today Group — India Today & Business Today (2006 → 2013)
The India Today Group (India Today and Business Today magazines) has covered Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam consistently from 2006 through 2013 — the most sustained mainstream press coverage of any Indian inverter-industry founder. Together, the five references below document Sachdev’s role as CEO / Managing Director of Su-Kam through the company’s peak growth years:
India Today, Volume 31, Issues 13–25 — 2006, page 27: Kunwer Sachdev listed as “CEO, Su-Kam Power Systems Ltd.” The earliest India Today mention preserved in Google Books.
Business Today, Volume 17, Issues 1–5 — 2008, page 114: Kunwer Sachdev, then CEO of Su-Kam, quoted on Haryana’s power crisis — “his customers are complaining as ‘there is hardly any power to charge even the batteries.’” A primary-source reference for tracking India’s inverter industry in that period.
India Today, 2009 print edition, page 27: Sachdev profiled on Su-Kam’s Deep Discharge Sealed Maintenance Free (SMF) battery technology and the industry-first two-year inverter-battery warranty.
India Today, August 15, 2010 (Independence Day special) — “Spirit of India: Ignited Minds”: Su-Kam’s plastic-body inverter named among India’s Top 10 Innovations of the Decade. The single most cited India Today reference for Su-Kam. Read the full story →
Business Today, 25 April 2013 — Leadership Spotlight: Full magazine profile of Kunwer Sachdev on his leadership style at Su-Kam. Still live on businesstoday.in. Read on businesstoday.in →
5. Rashmi Bansal — Connect the Dots
Rashmi Bansal · Eklavya Foundation · 2010 · The Inspiring Stories of 20 Entrepreneurs Without an MBA
India’s bestselling entrepreneurship author Rashmi Bansal profiles Kunwer Sachdev in Connect the Dots (2010), her book on Indian entrepreneurs who built successful businesses without formal management education. Prof. T V Rao’s IIMA book directs readers to Bansal’s Connect the Dots as the source “for the latest story on Kunwer.”
6. ProjectX Digest 2023 — Su-Kam’s MW-Scale Solar + Storage Project
Edited by Sandeep Sharma · ProjectX Digest · Special Edition 2023 · Page 77
ProjectX Digest is an Indian infrastructure and industrial-project reference publication that catalogues major upcoming and under-implementation projects across sectors. The 2023 Special Edition, on page 77, documents a MW-scale Su-Kam Power Systems project under Kunwer Sachdev’s leadership as Managing Director — in India’s utility-scale solar and energy-storage space:
Entry 195 — TEDA implements 1 MW solar power based Energy Storage System: “TEDA is implementing a 1 MW energy storage system to store excess energy generated by a 2 MW solar power plant in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu … storage capacity of 4 MWh…” Su-Kam Power Systems Limited listed as the implementing partner; Kunwer Sachdev, Managing Director.
— ProjectX Digest 2023: Special Edition, ed. Sandeep Sharma, page 77
Together with Su-Kam’s January 2014 SECI tender win to build the grid-tied rooftop solar plant at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh — India’s largest rooftop solar plant at an educational institute at the time, commissioned in October 2015 and filmed by Discovery Channel in Sun Fuel India — the ProjectX Digest 2023 entry forms a printed record of Su-Kam’s consistent execution of MW-scale solar and solar-plus-storage projects across an entire decade, under Kunwer Sachdev’s founder-led leadership.
7. Dataquest (DQ) — 1999 (Earliest Published Reference)
Dataquest · CyberMedia · 1999 · Page 46
Dataquest (DQ) is India’s oldest and most respected information-technology industry magazine, published by CyberMedia since 1982 and considered the definitive trade record for India’s tech industry. A 1999 issue of Dataquest, page 46, contains a reference to Kunwer Sachdev — the earliest published reference to Kunwer Sachdev preserved in Google Books, from the very early years of Su-Kam Power Systems.
Being on the record in Dataquest in 1999 places Kunwer Sachdev in India’s formal tech-industry chronicle from the late 1990s — well before the mainstream media (India Today from 2006 onwards, IIMA from 2010, Springer from 2014) began covering his work. It aligns with Su-Kam’s founding-era journey: the pivot from cable TV distribution into inverters and MOSFET-based sine-wave power electronics, at a time when the Indian home-inverter market was still being built from scratch.
8. Booming Brands — Inspiring Journeys of 11 ‘Made in India’ Brands
Harsh Pamnani · Volume 1 · 2018 · ISBN 9789387860082
Booming Brands by Harsh Pamnani tells the inspiring stories of 11 successful “Made in India” brands and the founders who built them. Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam Power Systems are profiled in the book as one of the 11 exemplar Indian brands — recognised alongside other founder-led Indian businesses that scaled from scratch into national and international market leaders. The book is used as a reference text in Indian business schools and by aspiring entrepreneurs studying how home-grown Indian brands are built.
9. Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen — How 11 Indians Pulled Off the Impossible
Porus Munshi · HarperCollins India · 2010 · ISBN 9788172237745
Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen: How 11 Indians Pulled Off the Impossible is one of India’s most well-known books on innovation, written by Porus Munshi and published by HarperCollins India in 2010. The book identifies 11 Indian innovators who achieved category-defining breakthroughs against the odds, and Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam Power Systems feature as one of the 11 case studies — recognised for turning the home inverter from an industrial-looking metal box into a mass-market, plastic-body appliance that reached tens of millions of Indian households.
The book is on the recommended-reading lists of several Indian management institutes and continues to be widely cited in academic and business writing on Indian innovation.
Why these references matter
Taken together, these publications place Kunwer Sachdev in a distinctive Indian business record — the intersection of a premier management institute (IIMA), a global academic publisher (Springer), a mainstream educational-reference publisher (Disha), a national newsmagazine (India Today), one of India’s most-read entrepreneurship books (Rashmi Bansal’s Connect the Dots), and India’s infrastructure-project reference publication (ProjectX Digest 2023). The common thread across all six references is the identification of Su-Kam’s plastic-body inverter, MW-scale solar and solar-plus-storage execution, and Kunwer Sachdev’s founder-led engineering leadership as a genuine, category-shaping Indian innovation record.
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