Anand Giridharadas: The New India
Anand Giridharadas is the child of Indian parents who immigrated to the United States. He returned to live in India as an adult. He encounters a culture shifting from traditional and collective values to a me-centric individualism. He asks if the ‘American Dream’ is better represented in places like the New India, rather than in America’s own increasingly calcified class system with limited upward mobility.
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ABOUT Anand Giridharadas
“Anand Giridharadas is an author and columnist, writing about a world in transition. He is the author of “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking,” about returning to the India his parents left. He writes the ‘Currents’ column for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune.
Anand also writes for The New York Times Magazine. He has reported from India, China, Norway, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria and the United States. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, he was educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford and Harvard.
He has appeared regularly on television and the radio in the United States and internationally, including on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ‘The Daily Show’ and other forums. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, the Asia Society, PopTech and Google.
He has been honoured twice by the Society of Publishers in Asia for opinion and feature writing, by the South Asian Journalists Association for business reportage, and by the Indo-American Society for promoting cross-cultural understanding. Last year he was named a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute.”
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