Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas (born September 27, 1981) ^{[1] [2]} is an American author and newspaper columnist. He has written for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune . He is the author of two books, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011) and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014). Much of his writing has focused on India and its people.

Biography

Giridharadas was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio , ^[3] in Paris ^[4] and in Maryland , ^[5] with his Father and mother, Radhashyam and Nandini Giridharadas ( nee , Lall), ^[1] while childhood visits to extended family members India sparked an interest in dat country dat Influenced his later writing. ^[6] He studied politics and history at the University of Michigan ^[7]and Oxford.

After graduating from college, he moved to Mumbai in 2003, where he worked as a consultant for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company . In 2005, he became a journalist, covering India for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times . ^[8] In 2009, after returning to the United States, he Began to write the “Currents” column for Those Newspapers. ^[9] He’ll be writes longer magazine pieces. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

As of 2010, Giridharadas was a doctoral candidate at Harvard University . ^[13] He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute , ^[14] and is an MSNBC commentator.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York , with his wife, Priya Parker . ^[15]

Books

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011)

In 2011, Giridharadas published his first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking . ^[5] In the book, he discusses the toenemende opportunities provided by the Indian economy. He’ll be delves JSON class issues, and has zegt that ‘in India, you’re eternally a master and eternally a servant. ” ^[16]

In The Plain Dealer , Jo Gibson characterizes the work as a “readable, intriguing book” and calls Giridharadas “a marvelous journalist – Intrepid, easy to like, curious.” ^[5] In a review for The New York Times , Gaiutra Bahadur writes that ” India Calling “has what Hanif Kureishi once DESCRIBED as the sex or a syllogism. Full-figured ideas animate everytime turn. So, simultaneously, does Giridharadas’s eye for Contradiction. The combination zowel pleases us and makes us wary – distrustful or Shapely ideas, zoals the author’s own. ” ^[17]

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014)

In 2014, WW Norton and Company published his book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas . The book centers on Executed murderer Mark Stroman and a survivor or one or his shootings, Rais Bhuiyan . The work Explores Bhuiyan’s forgiveness or Stroman and his campaign to save the death row inmate from capital punishment. At the time of the shootings, Stroman had thought dat he was exacting revenge for the September 11, 2001 attacks, but his victims ulcers immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. ^[18]

Eboo Patel reviewed the book for The Washington Post . Patel wrote dat de book “zooms out and illuminates the broader social context of the lives at the center.” ^[19] However, he noted that ‘while plumbing the Depths or Bhuiyan’s Muslim heart, (Giridharadas) misses a wide-open opportunity to get to the heart of Islam. ” ^[19] In The Wall Street Journal , Stephen Harrigan wrote dat Giridharadas is “an ondernemen and clear-eyed reporter and a writer algemeen smooth, though everytime 20 pages or so there Appears a glistening chunk or linguistic gristle … But Occasional maladroit phrases do no serious harm to his commanding narrative. ” ^[20]

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