Nisid Hajari is author of the critically acclaimed narrative history, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition. The book won the 2016 Colby Award for international affairs and was a finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations book award, the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Tata Literature First Book Award. It was named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Daily Beast, Amazon.com, and Quartz.

Nisid writes about Asian politics, history and economics for the editorial board of Bloomberg News. He previously led international coverage at Newsweek magazine in New York.

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