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Dilip Hiro is a leading expert on the Middle East and South Asia. He is the author of the bestselling "Iraq in the Eye of the Storm"; the Orwell Prize-nominated "Secrets and Lies"; and "Inside Central Asia," a "Financial Times" Best Book of the Year. He has appeared on NPR, "Democracy Now!," and CNN. He lives in London.
Praise for The Age of Aspiration:
"Hiro (The Longest August) develops a dense, intriguing analysis of
India’s complex sociopolitical climate since 1991, when the country
launched extensive neoliberal reforms. The book reveals the gap
between astonishing technological developments and the worsening
status of the poor. While appreciative of the information
technology education that gives Indian students a competitive edge
throughout the world, Hiro points out that the benefits of the
boom have gone to those at the top and the middle, leaving the
bottom stagnating.’"
Publishers Weekly
"[M]eticulously researched and exhaustively detailed . . . Hiro’s
work provides a stunning indictment of the fashionable idea echoed
endlessly by mainstream pundits of a politically and economically
healthy, thriving, democratic India. . . . The Age of Aspiration is
replete with colorful and sordid tales of sleaze and corruption
that follow politicians and businessmen alike. . . . Hiro’s
narrative provides a compelling case for just how distorted of a
democracy’ India has become."
In These Times
"Hiro looks at the impact of globalization both on villagers and on
the institutions involved, thus encompassing both the small and big
pictures...Hiro examines the incredibly powerful Indian diaspora in
Silicon Valley; and the continued role of the Maoist Naxalites...
As comprehensive and knowledgeable as Hiro’s earlier Inside India
Today (1977; reissued 2013).” Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Dilip Hiro:
"Hiro
is a model political analyst. His approach is as incorrigibly
nonpartisan as it is methodical."
The Sunday Times
Praise for Dilip Hiro’s Secrets and Lies:
"Deeply informed."
Noam Chomsky
"An extraordinary account
Hiro has fashioned a well-rounded,
thought-provoking story about the Bush administration’s bellicose
preparations, the invasion and the postwar headaches."
Stanley Meisler, Los Angeles Times
Praise for After Empire:
"Dilip Hiro writes from an unabashedly un-American point of view.
It is arresting to see a familiar subject assume an unfamiliar
shape."
The Economist
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