People

Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas

Formal First Name
Anand
Dates
1981 - present

Anand Giridharadas is a remarkable writer and journalist. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News and has written for The Times’s business, arts, foreign, and travel pages. At the young age of 17, he first wrote for The New York Times Washington bureau. A frank and inspiring speaker, Giridharadas talks about the world's growing inequality and argues that we need to change the way we “change the world.” He contends that real solutions come from the democratic process of working to repair the fundamental systems of society.