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Anand Giridharadas

American Author

Born: Sep 27, 1981

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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough. Anand Giridharadas

Old Will Enough Concede Privileges Cannot Should Moment Fast

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is. Anand Giridharadas

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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own. Anand Giridharadas

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The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem. Anand Giridharadas

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It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that. Anand Giridharadas

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement. Anand Giridharadas

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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit. Anand Giridharadas

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation. Anand Giridharadas

I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah. Anand Giridharadas

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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from. Anand Giridharadas

Parents Hairstyle India Come Common Where

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth. Anand Giridharadas

Birth Indian Cleveland

Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that. Anand Giridharadas

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When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people. Anand Giridharadas

You People Systems Observe How Affect Rooted Actually

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food. Anand Giridharadas

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard. Anand Giridharadas

Difficult Harvard How American Realize Create

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.' Anand Giridharadas

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Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters. Anand Giridharadas

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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience. Anand Giridharadas

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As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points. Anand Giridharadas

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office. Anand Giridharadas

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America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer. Anand Giridharadas

Nation Easy America Thankfully

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose. Anand Giridharadas

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Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers? Anand Giridharadas

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In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans. Anand Giridharadas

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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives. Anand Giridharadas

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