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Akash Kapur

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Thanks for visiting my Author's Page and for your interest in my work. I am an Indian-American journalist and author. I write about a wide range of topics but my main interest is in human stories. I believe literature illuminates the human condition, and I love talking to people (I hate calling them "interviews"), understanding their lives, and translating their stories into the written word.

My first book, "India Becoming," captured stories from a changing and rapidly modernizing India; it tried to portray all the ambivalence and "creative destruction" of economic development. "Better to have Gone" is about love, faith, death, and the noble but often tragic--and destructive--search for utopia. It's set in the intentional community of Aurovi ...more

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Better to Have Gone: Love, ...
3.74 avg rating — 1,210 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions
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India Becoming: A Portrait ...
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Auroville: Dream & Reality ...
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Conversations and Monologues
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