Rana Dasgupta
FollowRana Dasgupta is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of Tokyo Cancelled (2005) and Solo (2009), and his acclaimed non-fiction work includes Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (2014), which won the Ryszard Kapuściński Award and Prix Émile Guimet de Littérature Asiatique and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize, Ondaatje Prize, and Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. His latest book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order (2026), has been described as “the twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.”
Rana Dasgupta is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of Tokyo Cancelled (2005) and Solo (2009), and his acclaimed non-fiction work includes Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (2014), which won the Ryszard Kapuściński Award and Prix Émile Guimet de Littérature Asiatique and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize, Ondaatje Prize, and Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. His latest book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order (2026), has been described as “the twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.”