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In Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, acclaimed writer Salil Tripathi traces the journey of a community whose enterprising spirit has carried them across the world. The Gujaratis, through their remarkable resilience and pragmatic commercial spirit, have left their footprint in almost every continent. Traversing through histories of migration, faith, commerce, and politics, Tripathi, with celebrated writer Suketu Mehta, examines the paradoxes of belonging and ambition. The Gujaratis through their remarkable resilience and pragmatic commercial spirit have left their footprint in almost every continent.
Salil Tripathi has been an award-winning correspondent in Southeast Asia. His latest book, The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, is long-listed for the Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya NIF prize for non-fiction. His previous works include Offence: The Hindu Case and The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (long-listed for the Tata Literature Festival prize). Tripathi is the co-editor of For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings from and about prison, with artist Shilpa Gupta. Born in Bombay and based in Brooklyn, he serves on the board of PEN International.
Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Mehta has written original screenplays for films, including New York, I Love You.
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In Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, acclaimed writer Salil Tripathi traces the journey of a community whose enterprising spirit has carried them across the world. The Gujaratis, through their remarkable resilience and pragmatic commercial spirit, have left their footprint in almost every continent. Traversing through histories of migration, faith, commerce, and politics, Tripathi, with celebrated writer Suketu Mehta, examines the paradoxes of belonging and ambition. The Gujaratis through their remarkable resilience and pragmatic commercial spirit have left their footprint in almost every continent.
Salil Tripathi has been an award-winning correspondent in Southeast Asia. His latest book, The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, is long-listed for the Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya NIF prize for non-fiction. His previous works include Offence: The Hindu Case and The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (long-listed for the Tata Literature Festival prize). Tripathi is the co-editor of For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings from and about prison, with artist Shilpa Gupta. Born in Bombay and based in Brooklyn, he serves on the board of PEN International.
Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Mehta has written original screenplays for films, including New York, I Love You.
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