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.