Akash Kapur is the former writer of the “Letter from India” column for the International Herald Tribune, which has been picked up in the Week in Review section of The New York Times on occasion. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Law from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He consults on development and media law for a number of organizations, including the United Nations. He lives outside Pondicherry in Southern India. Books by Akash Kapur Conversations and Monologues Better To Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Auroville: Dream and Reality: An Anthology India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India