Anand Giridharadas
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Anand Giridharadas is an American journalist and author.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Politics and history, University of Michigan (opens wiqqi.app)
- Career: McKinsey consultant in Mumbai from 2003; journalist covering India for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times from 2005; their "Currents" columnist from 2009 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: India Calling (2011); The True American (2014); Winners Take All (2018); The Persuaders (2022); Man in the Mirror (2026) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @AnandWrites (opens x.com)
“That’s why I write.”
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Newsletter: The.Ink (opens the.ink)
“All politics is emotional”
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x.com: @AnandWrites (opens x.com)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Abandonment is one of the last things Americans across the divide have in common. (opens korrents.com)
“A death on the subway that seemed to prove that Americans now inhabit perfectly sealed, irreconcilable moral universes actually revealed one of the last things we have in common — abandonment.”
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Americans' shared sense of abandonment fails to become solidarity because each side tells its story in a silo. (opens korrents.com)
“Our common abandonment keeps failing to produce a common politics — solidarity across difference — because all too often, as in the Penny and Mangione cases, the way the story is told silos it.”
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Taking matters into one's own hands has become a rare common thread of American life. (opens korrents.com)
“This makes it harder to see that taking matters into one’s own hands has become a rare thread of our common life, a final American glue.”
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Abandonment is one of the last things Americans across the divide have in common. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Random Family (opens rcmnd.app)
“So, two of my classics, um, Random Family by Adrienne Nicole LeBlanc, um, one of the greatest works of of 10 years of immersive reporting, uh, deeply understanding, uh, Community in the Bronx.”
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers (opens rcmnd.app)
“And, um, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Buu, another one of the the greatest in that in that field,”
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Random Family (opens rcmnd.app)