Acknowledgements

We thank Nitin Valecha and Praveen Tiwari, Bloomsbury India, for their help and encouragement, and Shreya Chakraborti, editorial manager, Bloomsbury India, for her incisive suggestions and editing.

Two passages from this book have appeared earlier in articles published by Ranganathan. The Hardtalk transcript used in Chapter 9 is courtesy the BBC.

Anand Ranganathan

Chitra Subramaniam

May 2019