The UCF Global Perspectives Office is pleased to announce that Anand Giridharadas, columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, will speak Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at the University of Central Florida.
Giridharadas will give a presentation titled “The Rise of India and What It Means for the World” at 3 p.m. in the Key West Ballroom of the Student Union. The event is free and open to the public.
Giridharadas was The New York Times first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era, beginning in 2005. He reported for four years on Indias transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. Giridharadas was appointed a columnist in 2008, writing the “Letter from India” series, and now pens the twice-monthly column, “Currents,” on new ideas, global culture and the social implications of technology. He is among the newspaper’s youngest columnists to date.
Giridharadas first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics. After college, in 2003, he moved to Bombay to work as a management consultant where he advised the local government on urban development; a pharmaceutical company on organizational redesign and leadership development; and Indian and Chinese businesses on their internationalization strategies.
Giridharadas first book, titled “India Calling,” is a work of narrative nonfiction about his return to the India his parents left, and is due out in early 2011.
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors include The India Program at UCF, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF International Services Center, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our office at 407-823-0935, global@mail.ucf.edu or visit our website at www.ucfglobalperspectives.org for further information.