Akash Kapur is a writer, based out of Pondicherry, in South India. His non-fiction book, India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India, was published in 2012 by Penguin. A French and Marathi edition are forthcoming.
He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The New York Times , The New Yorker, and Outlook, among otherplaces. He used to write a fortnightly “Letter from India” column for the International Herald Tribune and the online edition of The New York Times.
Akash 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, he 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.