Anand Giridharadas Biography
Anand Giridharadas is one of the American best-selling Authors and columnists who served as a columnist for The New York Times, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC.
He served as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune covering India and The New York Times in 2005. He started writing the “Currents” column for those newspapers in 2009, after moving to the United States. He also writes longer magazine pieces. Giridharadas was a doctoral candidate at Harvard University as of 2010. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Anand Giridharadas Age
Giridharadas is 39 years old as of 12 July 2021. He was born on 27 September 1981 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States.
Anand Giridharadas Parents (Family)
He is the son of Radhashyam Giridharadas and Nandini Giridharadas. His extended family members live in India.
Anand Giridharadas Wife
He is married to Priya Parker, a workshop facilitator, and author. The couple met while they were both working in India. They married in 2012 and have two children. One of their children, Orion Giridharadas, makes an appearance in a tiger tail before going to bed. They live in Brooklyn, New York.
Anand Giridharadas Education
He studied at Sidwell Friends School. He then studied and graduated from politics and history in the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard University. Harvard is committed to teaching, learning, and scientific excellence, and to produce leaders who make a global difference in many disciplines.
Anand Giridharadas Winners Take All
Giridharadas published a non-fiction book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Improving the World in 2018. The book appears on The New York Times Best Seller list and was published on August 28, 2018, by Alfred A. Knopf. It was also published in paperback on October 1, 2019, by Vintage Books. In the book, he argues that members of the global elite use their wealth and power to maintain institutions that concentrate wealth at the top at the cost of social change, while sometimes engaged in philanthropy.
The book first appeared at number eight on the Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list of The New York Times and at number six on its Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction bestseller list for the New York Times Book Review issue of September 16, 2018. The paperback edition of the book debuted at number eight on the bestseller list of Paperback Nonfiction in the New York Tim Times Book Review issue of October 20, 2019.
Anand Giridharadas Political Views and Philanthropy
In his 2018 non-fiction book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, he believes that, while often engaged in philanthropy, members of the global elite use their resources and power to perpetuate structures that accumulate wealth at the top at the cost of social advancement.
Anand Giridharadas Net Worth
He has made a good fortune from his career as an author and columnist. His assets and salary are not revealed.
Anand Giridharadas Books
- 2011; India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking. Times Books.
- 2014; The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
- 2018; Winners Take All; The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
Anand Giridharadas Quotes
- There is no denying that today’s elite may be among the more socially concerned elites in history. But it is also, by the cold logic of numbers, among the more predatory in history.
- By refusing to risk its way of life, by rejecting the idea that the powerful might have to sacrifice for the common good, it clings to a set of social arrangements that allow it to monopolize progress and then give symbolic scraps to the forsaken—many of whom wouldn’t need the scraps if the society were working right.
- Rich American men, who tend to live longer than the average citizens of any other country, now live fifteen years longer than poor American men, who endure only as long as men in Sudan and Pakistan.
- Leave us alone in the competitive marketplace, and we will tend to you after the winnings are won. The money will be spent more wisely on you than it would be by you. You will have your chance to enjoy our wealth, in the way we think you should enjoy it.
- Tech companies like Uber and Airbnb cast themselves as empowering the poor by allowing them to chauffeur people around or rent out spare rooms.