was born in Bombay, India, and is a writer and journalist based in London, and a British national. He has written frequently for the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Independent, and Index on Censorship, on topics ranging from economics, politics, culture, and business to cricket. In the 1990s, he was the regional economics correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review in Singapore and Hong Kong, and reported extensively on the Asian economic boom and the crisis that followed. He has also worked for India Today in Bombay. He obtained his MA in business administration from Dartmouth College in the United States in 1985. He is currently working on a novel set in the second half of the twentieth century in Singapore.