Anand Giridharadas is an author and columnist, writing about a world in transition as seen through the lens of culture. He writes the "Currents" column for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, and also writes for The New York Times Magazine. His "Admit One" column, which is dedicated to the New York City arts audience, appears regularly in the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left.

He has reported from India, China, Norway, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria, and the United States on subjects ranging from poverty to democracy to terrorism to the social consequences of technology.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard, he is a former consultant for McKinsey & Company and later reported from Bombay for the Herald Tribune and the Times. A Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has lectured globally, including at Google, PopTech, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, Stanford, and the Harvard Business School. He has also appeared regularly on television and the radio in the United States and internationally, including on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The Daily Show, and other forums.

Giridharadas lectures on a wide range of topics, bringing a special cultural take to his subjects, whether it's the prospects for America's future, the rise of the non-Western powers, or the relationship between humans and our technologies. He tailors his lectures to his audiences, and can address such topics as the nature of the present American (and Western) predicament; the revolutionary change underway in India; how technology is changing what it means to be human; the future of journalism and writing; and how emerging countries will change what it means to be "modern."