The Founder

Lalithaa
Jiji.

Title

Founder and Principal

Based

Dubai, UAE

Experience

15+ Years

Her Story

Lalithaa Jiji is a writer, interviewer, and, in the truest sense, a historian of people. She has spent fifteen years in Dubai listening to the stories that shape the region: the founders who built companies from nothing, the families who crossed continents in search of a better life, the executives navigating the complexities of global business with local roots.

Her approach is unusual among advisory professionals. She comes to every engagement not as a service provider but as a collaborator. Curious, patient, and committed to understanding the full arc of a story before attempting to write a single sentence of it.

Her most ambitious project to date, personally conducting and writing profiles of one hundred of the most influential Indian business leaders in the UAE, took over a year to complete. The result was not a directory. It was a human document: intimate, precise, and written with the care the subjects deserved.

Prior to founding Astrahika, Lalithaa worked across journalism, editorial consulting, and communications, developing the cross-disciplinary range that now defines the firm. Equally at home writing a corporate history, a founder memoir, a thought leadership column, or a family legacy archive.

Disciplines

Narrative ArchitectureExecutive GhostwritingLegacy DocumentationEditorial StrategyReputation AdvisoryOral History and InterviewsLiterary BiographyCorporate Storytelling

Career Milestones

2009
Founded Astrahika in Dubai
2011
First major corporate history commissioned
2015
Launched the legacy documentation programme
2019
Expanded to serve GCC-wide clientele
2023
Published The Top 100 Indian Business Leaders in the UAE
2024
Fiftieth book and legacy project completed