Rana Dasgupta: How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World — Lynn Parramore interviews Rana Dasgupta

A British national of Bengali origin, novelist Rana Dasgupta recently turned to nonfiction to explore the explosive social and economic changes in Delhi starting in 1991, when India launched a series of profoundly transformative economic reforms. In Capital: The Eruption of Delhi, he describes a city where the epic hopes of globalization have dimmed in the face of a sterner, more elitist world. In Part 1 of an interview with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Dasgupta traces a turbulent time in which traditional ways of life are dissolving as a new class of entrepreneur-warriors wields unprecedented power. Delhi’s particular experience of capitalism, he argues, is a story that is changing the global landscape.

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Rana Dasgupta: How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World
Lynn Parramore interviews Rana Dasgupta