Background
Kapur was born to an Indian father and American mother and raised near Auroville.
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Akash Kapur
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He attended boarding school in the United States when he was sixteen. Kapur graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University with a major in Social Anthropology. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Socio-Legal Studies from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Career
He is the author of a non-fiction book titled India Becoming, which was selected by The New Yorker and The New Republic as a Best Book of 2012. ByNewsweek as one of its three Must Reads on Modern India. And by the New York Times Book Review as an "Editors" Choice." He also attended the SAIIER (Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research) school in Auroville, where he grew up, and Phillips Academy, Andover.
Kapur lives outside Pondicherry, in South India.
Kapur has published in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The New York Times, Outlook, The New Yorker, and Time magazine. He is the former "Letter from India" columnist for The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times online edition
In 2010, his columns for the International Herald Tribune received an "" award by The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), which praised Kapur"s "brilliant accounts of developments in modern India." Kapur has spoken several times on National Public Radio radio in America, public radio in Australia, and NDTV in India. Kapur speaks fluent French, and has also spoken on several radio and television programs in France, including on France 24, France Inter, and Radio France Internationale.
India Becoming was published in France in mid-2014, under the title L"Inde de Demain (Albin Michel).
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