Akash Kapur is an Indian-American journalist and author. He is the author of two books, India Becoming (Penguin/Riverhead, 2012) and Better to Have Gone (Scribner, 2021); and the editor of one, Auroville: Dream and Reality (Penguin, 2018). He is the former "Letter from India" columnist for the international New York Times, and has published his work in various magazines and journals around the world. In 2018, Kapur was awarded a Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Better to Have Gone.[1] In 2021, Better to Have Gone was an Amazon bestseller[2] and was named a book of the year by The New York Times,[3]The Wall Street Journal ("Writers' Favorite Books"),[4] CNN,[5]The New Statesman,[6]Airmail,[7]Idler magazine,[8] and Scribd.[9] The book was shortlisted for the Tata LitLive prize, and longlisted for the Chautauqua prize.[10]
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