The New India

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India’s nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they navigate questions of identity and belonging.

Author Biography

Rahul Bhatia is an award-winning Indian writer and journalist based in Mumbai, whose work has been published in the New Yorker, Guardian Long Reads, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Quartz, GQ India and the Wall Street Journal. His profiles and cultural features for The Caravan magazine in India have been anthologised, and his technology investigations are studied at Stanford and other universities. He was on the Reuters global investigations team, where he focused on religion, business, and technology in India under Narendra Modi. He mentors writers and journalists as part of the “South Asia Speaks” collective, and was a co-founder of the Peepli Project, a journalism nonprofit. A former art director, Rahul Bhatia graduated in communication design from Pratt Institute, New York.

He tweets @rahulabhatia, where he has 14,000 followers.