Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is an author and New York Times columnist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised there, in Paris, and in Maryland, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford and Harvard. He was a consultant for McKinsey & Company and later reported from Mumbai for the Herald Tribune and the Times for four-and-a-half years. He wrote about India's transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. 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. In 2011, he published India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (Fourth Estate) about returning to the India his parents left. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Priya Parker.

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