Staff Reporter –

HSBC India recently celebrated 100 years of its iconic Dalhousie Square branch, now BBD Bagh, in Kolkata.

HSBC India was also an associate sponsor for Kolkata Literary Meet 2025 where in Mr Sandeep Batra – MD, Head of Wealth and Personal Banking India, HSBC
Participated in a discussion with Meenakshi Ahamed, Who explores the untold success stories of Indians in the USA at Kolkata Literary Meet 2025. A keynote address was delivered by Sandeep introducing William Dalrymple who discusses his new book on India’s global role over a Millennia.

The book “The Golden Road” argues as a counterpoint to the Silk Route, Dalrymple pitches the concept of a “Golden Road”, an Indian corridor of influence—“an Indosphere” that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific, down which travelled ideas that had a lasting impact on the world.