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Updated early life and education to reflect unfinished doctoral work at Harvard between 2009 and 2012

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{{short description|American writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Anand Giridharadas
| image = Anand Giridharadas - PopTech 2011 - Camden Maine USA.jpg
| caption = Giridharadas in 2011
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| birth_place = [[Shaker Heights, Ohio]], U.S.
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*columnist}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[University of Michigan, Ann Arbor|University of Michigan]]}}
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*politics
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| spouse = {{marriage|Priya B. Parker|2012}}
| children = 2
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'''Anand Giridharadas''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɑː|n|ən|d|_|ˌ|ɡ|ɪ|r|ᵻ|ˌ|d|ɑr|ə|ˈ|d|ɑː|s}};<ref>As pronounced by himself in "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVOjKgEq-4 How Donald Trump Resonates With White Male Voters]" (2016).</ref>) is an American journalist and political pundit. He is a former columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''. He is the author of three books, ''India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking'' (2011), ''The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas'' (2014), and ''[[Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World]] (2018)''.

== Early life and education ==
Giridharadas was raised in [[Shaker Heights, Ohio]]; [[Maryland]]; and [[Paris]], France.<ref>[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-24-2011/anand-giridharadas Stewart, Jon. January 24, 2011]. ''The Daily Show''. [[Comedy Central]]. Accessed February 24, 2011.</ref><ref>Giridharadas, Anand. ''The anatomy of a conflict: Afghanistan and 9/11'' (2002) p. vi. {{ISBN|81-7436-253-3}}.</ref><ref name=Plain>[http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/01/for_india_calling_former_cleve.html "For 'India Calling,' former Clevelander Anand Giridharadas writes eloquently of two cultures"]. ''The Plain Dealer''. January 4, 2011. Accessed February 24, 2011.</ref> His childhood visits to extended family members in [[India]] sparked an interest in that country that influenced his later writing.<ref>[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/45396-go-east-young-man.html Sehgal, Parul. "Go East, Young Man"]. Publishers Weekly. December 6, 2010. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref> He attended [[Sidwell Friends School]].<ref>[https://www.playboy.com/read/anand-giridharadas-playboy-profile Can Anand Giridharadas Fix a Broken Democracy?]</ref> He studied politics and history at the [[University of Michigan]].<ref>[http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/history/Home/Undergraduate/Honors%20Program/Symposium%202003.pdf History Honors Symposium.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504181535/http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/history/Home/Undergraduate/Honors%20Program/Symposium%202003.pdf |date=May 4, 2013 }} University of Michigan Department of History. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref> Giridharadas completed "unfinished doctoral work in political philosophy" at [[Harvard University]] between 2009 and 2012.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandwrites/ Anand Giridharadas LinkedIn.]</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:Conversation About America's Future with Anand Giridharadas at SXSW (48466867252) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Giridharadas speaking with [[Elizabeth Warren]] at [[South by Southwest#2019|SXSW 2019]].]]
After graduating from college, Giridharadas moved to [[Mumbai]] in 2003 as a consultant for the global management consulting firm [[McKinsey & Company]], where he followed the path of his father, who was a director at McKinsey. In 2005, he became a journalist, covering India for the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=india&as_epq=by+anand+giridharadas&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=nytimes.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min:2/1/2005,cd_max:9/1/2009&as_filetype=&as_rights=#q=india+%22by+anand+giridharadas%22+site:nytimes.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min:2/1/2005,cd_max:9/1/2009&filter=0&fp=1&biw=1283&bih=664&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&cad=b&sei=P_A5UZCDHo_h0wGA7oDQCg Selection of Giridharadas's India coverage via Google] Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref> In 2009, after returning to the United States, he began to write the "Currents" column for those newspapers.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=by+anand+giridharadas&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=nytimes.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min:9/1/2009&as_filetype=&as_rights= Selection of Giridharadas's "Currents" columns and other writings via Google] Accessed March 8, 2013</ref> He also writes longer magazine pieces.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/what-is-wyclef-jean-trying-to-save-in-haiti.html?pagewanted=all Giridharadas, Anand. "The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince"] July 15, 2011. ''The New York Times Magazine''. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/the-kitchen-table-industrialists.html?ref=anandgiridharadas Giridharadas, Anand. "The Kitchen-Table Industrialists"] May 13, 2011. ''The New York Times Magazine''. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/01/vs-naipaul-the-constant-critic-the-lover-of-animals/68782/ Giridharadas, Anand. "V.S. Naipaul: The Constant Critic, the Lover of Animals"] January 4, 2011. ''The Atlantic''. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref> He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the [[Aspen Institute]],<ref>[http://www.aspeninstitute.org/leadership-programs/henry-crown-fellowship-program/2011-class 2011 Henry Crown Fellowship] Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref> an [[MSNBC]] commentator, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at [[New York University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/anand-giridharadas/|title=Anand Giridharadas - NYU Journalism|work=NYU Journalism|access-date=2018-08-26|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== ''Seat at the Table'' ===
Giridharadas hosted the talk show ''Seat at the Table with Anand Giridharadas'' on [[Vice on TV]]. The show premiered in April 2020, and was canceled in July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vice TV Sets Weekly News & Talk Show 'Seat At The Table' With Former New York Times Columnist Anand Giridharadas |url=https://deadline.com/2020/04/vice-tv-anand-giridharadas-seat-at-the-table-1202908555/ |last=White |first=Peter |date=April 15, 2020 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1280130571386130434|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=Twitter}}</ref>

=== ''The.Ink'' ===
In June 2020, Giridharadas started the [[Substack]] newsletter ''The.Ink'' devoted to politics, culture, money and power. Most posts are free, while paid subscribers gain exclusive access to live events and the occasional special post.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Giridharadas|first=Anand|title=The.Ink|url=https://the.ink/about|access-date=2021-03-29|website=the.ink}}</ref>

== Books ==
=== ''India Calling'' (2011) ===
In 2011, Giridharadas published his first book, ''India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking''.<ref name=Plain /> In it he discusses the increasing opportunities the Indian economy provides. He also delves into class issues, and has said, "in India, you're eternally a master and eternally a servant."<ref name=NPR>{{cite web |title='India Calling': The New 'Land Of Opportunity'? |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/132631222/india-calling-the-new-land-of-opportunity |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |access-date=August 9, 2014}}</ref>

In ''[[The Plain Dealer]]'', Jo Gibson called the book "readable" and "intriguing" and Giridharadas "a marvelous journalist—intrepid, easy to like, curious."<ref name=Plain /> In a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Gaiutra Bahadur]] wrote, "'India Calling' has what Hanif Kureishi once described as 'the sex of a syllogism.' Full-figured ideas animate every turn. So, simultaneously, does Giridharadas’s eye for contradiction. The combination both pleases us and makes us wary—distrustful of shapely ideas, including the author’s own."<ref name=Homeland>{{cite news |last1=Bahadur |first1=Gaiutra |title=Homeland revisited |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/Bahadur-t.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=August 9, 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 7, 2011}}</ref>

=== ''The True American'' (2014) ===
In 2014, [[W. W. Norton and Company]] published Giridharadas's ''The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas''. The book centers on executed murderer [[Mark Stroman]] and a survivor of one of his shootings, [[Rais Bhuiyan]]. It explores Bhuiyan's forgiveness of Stroman and his campaign to save Stroman from capital punishment. At the time of the shootings, Stroman thought he was exacting revenge for the [[September 11, 2001]] attacks, but his victims were immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.<ref name=Akhtar>{{cite news |last1=Akhtar |first1=Ayad |title=Pledges of allegiance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/books/review/the-true-american-by-anand-giridharadas.html |access-date=August 9, 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 8, 2014}}</ref>

In his review for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[Eboo Patel]] wrote that the book "zooms out and illuminates the broader social context of the lives at the center"<ref name=Patel /> but that "while plumbing the depths of Bhuiyan’s Muslim heart, [Giridharadas] misses a wide-open opportunity to get to the heart of Islam."<ref name=Patel>{{cite news |last1=Patel |first1=Eboo |title=Book review: 'The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas' by Anand Giridharadas |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-true-american-murder-and-mercy-in-texas-by-anand-giridharadas/2014/05/08/d2d18490-b047-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html |access-date=August 9, 2014 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=May 9, 2014}}</ref> In ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', [[Stephen Harrigan]] wrote that Giridharadas is "an enterprising and clear-eyed reporter and a generally smooth writer, though every 20 pages or so there appears a glistening chunk of linguistic gristle... But occasional maladroit phrases do no serious harm to his commanding narrative."<ref name=Harrigan>{{cite news |last1=Harrigan |first1=Stephen |title=Book Review: 'The True American' by Anand Giridharadas |url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304393704579530002828814022 |access-date=August 9, 2014 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=May 4, 2014}}</ref>

=== ''Winners Take All'' (2018) ===
{{main|Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World}}
In 2018, Giridharadas published ''[[Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World]]'' in which he argues that members of the global elite, though sometimes engaged in philanthropy, use their wealth and influence to preserve systems that concentrate wealth at the top at the expense of societal progress. Writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', economist [[Joseph Stiglitz]] praised the book, writing that Giridharadas "writes on two levels — seemingly tactful and subtle — but ultimately he presents a devastating portrait of a whole class, one easier to satirize than to reform."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/books/review/winners-take-all-anand-giridharadas.html|title=Meet the 'Change Agents' Who Are Enabling Inequality|access-date=2018-08-25|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Giridharadas lives in [[Brooklyn, New York]], with his wife, author [[Priya B. Parker]], and their two children.<ref>[http://anand.ly/about/ Anand Giridharadas biography] Anand.ly. Accessed March 8, 2013.</ref>

==Works==
* {{cite book |title=India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking |last=Giridharadas |first=Anand |work=[[Times Books]] |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-8050-9177-9 |location=New York}}
* {{cite book |title=The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas |last=Giridharadas |first=Anand |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-393-23950-8 |location=New York}}
* {{cite book |title=[[Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World|Winners Take All; The Elite Charade of Changing the World]] |last=Giridharadas |first=Anand |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]] |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-451-49324-8 |location=New York}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|https://www.anand.ly/}}
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/g/anand_giridharadas/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=Anand%20Giridharadas&st=cse ''New York Times'' writings]
* [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-24-2011/anand-giridharadas "Daily Show" appearance]
* [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/anything-to-declare-at-immigration/751914/0 "Anything to Declare at Immigration?" ''The Indian Express Limited''. February 19, 2011.]
* {{TED speaker}}
** {{TED talk|anand_giridharadas_a_tale_of_two_americas_and_the_mini_mart_where_they_collided|A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided}} (TED2015)
*{{C-SPAN|Anand Giridharadas}}

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Anand Giridharadas - Revision history

Snehasis: cleaned up formatting based on references and cleaned formatting for accuracy

>Rsnsasns: Updated early life and education to reflect unfinished doctoral work at Harvard between 2009 and 2012