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.

Why India’s “Act East” policy is no longer about frugal engineering

Hindol Sengupta Nov 11, 2015

There is a famous (and infamous) word in India: jugaad. In Hindi, it roughly means “to make do”. While this jugaad attitude has been celebrated as the Indian spirit of “frugal engineering”, it also exemplifies the poor quality of goods made…

India and the AIIB: having your cake, and not eating it too

Hindol Sengupta Apr 28, 2015

The new Indian Prime Minister is from the western Indian state of Gujarat, which is famed for churning out the country’s sharpest businessmen. Banking is something Narendra Modi instinctively understands. But in March, when his government…

The age after ideology – India under Modi

Hindol Sengupta Nov 28, 2014

In October, little noticed by journalists in India and abroad, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of India’s ruling political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), declared that it was celebrating the 1,000th…

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