Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to.… — 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
