Akash Kapur
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Akash Kapur

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Thanks for visiting my Author's Page and for your interest in my work. I am an Indian-American journalist and author. I write about a wide range of topics but my main interest is in human stories. I believe literature illuminates the human condition, and I love talking to people (I hate calling them "interviews"), understanding their lives, and translating their stories into the written word. My first book, "India Becoming," captured stories from a changing and rapidly modernizing India; it tried to portray all the ambivalence and "creative destruction" of economic development. "Better to have Gone" is about love, faith, death, and the noble but often tragic--and destructive--search for utopia. It's set in the intentional community of Auroville, where I grew up, and is focused on the remarkable stories of my wife's parents, who were pioneers in the community and died in mysterious circumstances. The book was something of a personal quest for our family as we sought to unravel those mysteries. I'm also the editor of an anthology of writing from Auroville ("Auroville: Dream and Reality"), and I've written for a number of publications in the USA, India, and UK. These include the Atlantic, the Economist, Granta, the Hindu, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. I also used to write a fortnightly "Letter from India" column for the international New York Times.
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    • Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
    • By: Akash Kapur
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
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    • Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
    • By: Akash Kapur
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
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