Akash Kapur is a respected journalist who has written for a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The Hindu, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. At one point he wrote a fortnightly “Letter from India” column for the international edition of The New York Times. A Senior Fellow at New York University’s The GovLab, where he works on issues such as open data, Internet governance, and technology law and policy, he is the author of India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India and, recently,

Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville. He was born and raised in Auroville, the intentional community in South India based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. We spoke mainly about that book and the remarkable story it tells, and we touched on themes such as the promise of utopia that Auroville represented. Learn more about Akash Kapur here: https://akashkapur.com/.