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John Elliott
John Elliott is an author and foreign correspondent, initially with the Financial Times. A new updated edition of his prize-winning book, IMPLOSION: India’s Tryst with Reality, reviewing the Narendra Modi years, has been published. He writes a blog on South Asia current affairs called ‘Riding the Elephant’ that also appears on the website of Asia Sentinel (Hong Kong). He has also written, among others, for The Economist, Fortune magazine and the New Statesman.
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Rebellious Lord
Meghnad Desai in conversation with John Elliott
Lord Meghnad Desai's latest offering, Rebellious Lord, is an autobiography that is a personal account of a distinguished public man. The journey of his life has been extraordinary by all standards. Starting out in Vadodara, he travelled to the US and the UK for higher education, becoming involved in the student protest movement that shook the western world in the 1960s. His unorthodox approach to world economics led to his forming centres of study at the London School of Economics where he helped to create the Human Development Index, now widely used to quantify development in emerging societies around the world. Having joined the British Labour Party in 1971, he entered the House of Lords in 1991. A regular columnist for publications in the UK and in India, he has also written over 30 books on economics, history, politics, cinema, and his recent novel is Anamika: A Tale of Desire in a Time of War. In conversation with John Elliott, he discusses his long awaited autobiography.