Hindol Sengupta

Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of nine books. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Editor-at-Large for Fortune India. He has been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford.

How India tries to benefit from demography via data

Hindol Sengupta Feb 14, 2019

Does India have a demographic dividend? That is, does it have many young people of working age who will boost its economy for years to come, or does it have a growing problem of an ageing population? Does it have a highly-skilled population…

Narendra Modi’s mixed records: ambition and gambles

Hindol Sengupta Oct 25, 2018

Over the years, Modi has delivered some radical change, a couple of dramatic failures, all while keeping his reputation as the country’s most trusted political leader intact

India’s Pacific opportunity

Hindol Sengupta Feb 18, 2018

Narendra Modi first went to Australia in 2014, just after he came to power, and became the first Indian prime minister to travel to country in 28 years. Some critics complained that it was because his old friend and energy tycoon Gautam…

The price of friends: India’s calculations on Afghanistan

Hindol Sengupta Sep 16, 2017

In the 1892 short story “Kabuliwala” (the man from Kabul) by Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a dry fruit vendor from the capital of Afghanistan develops a tender friendship with a little girl in Calcutta. The vendor is then…

The Indian Ocean: an “Indian idea”

Hindol Sengupta Jul 27, 2017

This thought has been brewing in the corridors of power at Raisina Hill these days. Diplomats whisper about it, while at least one prominent not-for-profit India Foundation, which counts two sitting cabinet ministers as mentors, has started…

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