Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His first book, a work of nonfiction about returning to his parents’ India, was published in January 2011-India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking. He also writes the "Currents" column for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times online, which explores ideas, global culture and the social meaning of technology, among other subjects. In 2009, he completed a four-and-a-half year tour reporting from India for The Times and the Herald Tribune, chronicling India’s transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. He was appointed a columnist in 2008, writing the "Letter from India" series. He first interned for The New York Times at age 17. In 2003, after graduating from college, he moved to Bombay to work as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He appears regularly on television and the radio in the United States and internationally. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Brown, the University of Michigan, the United Nations and Google. He studied history of political thought at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is presently a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Anand is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.