• About

    I write a fortnightly "Letter from India" column for the International Herald Tribune, and occasionally for The New York Times

    I'm working on a non-fiction book about India, to be published by Riverhead in 2010

    I've written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and several other publications

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  • Highlights

    Two articles on the five-year anniversary of the tsunami (1, 2), from The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. These follow-up from my two original reports on the tsunami, published in The New Yorker (1, 2).

    See also a related article from Granta on coastal erosion in South India.

    Two articles on the social impact of rapid development, from The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times (1, 2).

    I've also written on development for The Atlantic (an essay review on Amartya Sen ) and The Economist (on the digital divide).

    I've written several literary essays and reviews over the years. See this one on VS Naipaul, from Transition, and this one on Indian literature, from The New Statesman.

About

I also write a fortnightly “Letter from India” column for the International Herald Tribune.

I’m a writer, living mostly in South India, outside Pondicherry.

My work has been published in The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker, among other places. I’m in the process of finishing a non-fiction book on India, to be published in 2010 by Riverhead.

I also write a fortnightly “Letter from India” column for the International Herald Tribune. The column runs occasionally in the Week in Review section of The New York Times. I’d love your feedback on the column, or on any of the articles I’ve written. Also, if you have ideas for stories you think are important and under-reported, please contact me to let me know.

I got a bachelor’s degree at Harvard University (in Social Anthropology), and a DPhil (as a Rhodes Scholar) at Nuffield College, Oxford University. The DPhil was in the law faculty, and was on the use of technology in development. In another life, I consulted a lot in this field, researching and writing reports for, among other places, UNDP, The Markle Foundation, Network Dynamics Associates, Iomemo Technologies, and so on. Some of this work is online (see, for example, a Primer on Internet Governance I prepared for UNDP).

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