In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed.… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“that his tendency to hate could ultimately save his life. In fact, in” — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
