![]() ![]() The community of Indian intellectuals have been accused of being dominated by left liberals. ![]() Until the Lion Learns to Write, Every Story Will Glorify the Hunter. These travels resulted in The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History.Ĭurrently Sanjeev lives in New Delhi where he serves as the principal economic adviser to the Indian government. He also spent the next few years exploring the Indian Ocean rim-Oman, Sri Lanka, Zanzibar, Vietnam, Indonesia, and up and down India’s coastline. Then in 2011, again for no particular reason, he went back to finance and took up a role as the global strategist of one of the world’s largest banks. This resulted in his hugely popular second book, Land of the Seven Rivers. One day in 2008, mostly on a whim, he decided to move back to India and travel all over the country with his family. Sanjeev spent most of his adult life battling international financial markets, a few years in Mumbai and many in Singapore. ![]() These experiences made him a keen observer of rapidly changing societies, an interest that reflects in many of his varied writings. He spent the tumultuous summer of 1993 in South Africa as it transitioned from apartheid, and then extensively travelled through Guatemala as it emerged from civil war. He grew up in Sikkim, Kolkata and Delhi before heading off to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer. ![]()
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