Akash Kapur

Akash Kapur is a writer, academic, and technology policy specialist. He is the author of two books, ''India Becoming'' (Penguin/Riverhead, 2012) and ''Better to Have Gone'' (Scribner, 2021). He has consulted or worked at a number of organizations on technology policy, including UNDP, NYU, Princeton, and New America.

He is a former columnist for the ''New York Times'', and has published his work in various magazines and journals, including the ''New Yorker'', the ''Atlantic'', the ''Economist'', and more. Kapur was awarded a Whiting Nonfiction Grant for ''Better to Have Gone,'' which was named a book of the year by ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', CNN, ''The New Statesman'', ''Airmail'', ''Idler'' magazine, and ''Scribd''. The book was a bestseller and it was shortlisted for the Tata LitLive prize, and longlisted for the Chautauqua prize. Provided by Wikipedia