Novelist. Journalist. Orator. Thinker. Novelist - ‘Autobiography of a Mad Nation’, long-listed, MAN Asian Prize; a dystopian saga of a generation of friends caught in India’s array of frenzied bouts of collective insanity between Emergency to the Millennium. The Spiritual Supermarket, long-listed, Crossword (Non-Fiction) Book Prize. Next novel due - ‘One Farmer Less’. Wrote for The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, HuffPost, The Economic Times, The New Indian Express, Scroll, The Wire, The Asian Age, FirstPost, Asia Times, Khaleel Times, Rediff. Resident Editor - Deccan Chronicle. Passionate crusader for Reason, Capitalism and Individual Liberty.