People like Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas () is an American journalist and political pundit. He is a former columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of four books: India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (2011), The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018), and The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022).

Giridharadas was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio; Maryland; and Paris, France. His childhood visits to extended family members in India sparked an interest in that country that influenced his later writing. He attended Sidwell Friends School. He studied politics and history at the University of Michigan.