Aatish Ali Taseer is an American writer and journalist.

In 2019, he wrote the article ‘Divider in Chief’ criticizing Modi and the BJP Government in India for Time Magazine.

Taseer has also written for the Time, Prospect, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, amongst many,

He has also authored several books including Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands (2009), His part memoir-part travelogue, has been translated into more than 14 languages and hailed as a "must-read" for anyone attempting to understand the Muslim world

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00:00 Political Posturing on the internet

2:55 Consequences of putting on a performance mask

4:34 Over sensationalisation by Indian Media

9:00 Delhi Riots, Aatish Taseer and William Dalrymple

15:04 Historical Romanticism in India vs America

21:32 Aatish's spiritual experience in Banaras

27:35 The cocktail that is India and Bharat

36:34 Aatish's feeling of being lost as a writer

44:05 Class system in India

52:56 "The conversion of culture into religion end up with conversion of religion into politics"

1:05:25 Dealing with dislike and trolls

1:10:40 Aatish's new projects

1:12:15 The privilege of being Indian in the world

1:15:51 Feeling of complex - not the spirit of Indian Cosmopolitanism