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; Inside Central Asia, a Financial Times Best Book of the Year; and The Age of Aspiration: Power, Wealth, and Conflict in Globalizing India (The New Press). He has appeared on NPR, Democracy Now!, and CNN. He lives in London.
"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...
