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Anand Giridharadas is the author of “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking.” He writes the “Currents” column for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, on ideas, culture and technology. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, he worked in Bombay as a management consultant until 2005, when he began reporting from that city for the Herald Tribune and the Times. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute and presently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sign up to join his regular newsletter here.