Better To Have Gone

Akash Kapur is the author of India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India and the editor of an anthology, Auroville: Dream and Reality. He is the former Letter from India columnist for the New York Times, the recipient of a Whiting Grant, and has written for various leading publications in the UK, USA and India. He grew up in Auroville and returned there to live with his family after being educated in the USA and UK, where he received a doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.