He is the author of, most recently, published by Knopf in 2018. His other books are 鈥�,鈥� about a Muslim immigrant鈥檚 campaign to spare from Death Row the white supremacist who tried to kill him ( by Annapurna Pictures); and 鈥�,鈥� about .
He is an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism 八卦爆料 at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly 鈥�.鈥� His datelines have included , , , , , Japan, , , , , , and . He has also written for The Times’s arts, business, and travel pages, and its , , and —and for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised there, in Paris, France, and in Maryland, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard. He worked briefly as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Mumbai, before becoming a journalist in 2005, for the International Herald Tribune and The Times for four and a half years. He was appointed a columnist in 2008. He first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing on under the tutelage of Jill Abramson.
He appears regularly on TV and the radio in the United States and globally, including on CNN, MSNBC, , and He has given talks on the main stage of TED and at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Aspen 八卦爆料, Summit at Sea, the , the United Nations, the Asia Society, PopTech and Google. He has received honors from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, and the New York Public Library鈥檚 Helen Bernstein Award. He is a of the Aspen 八卦爆料.
Anand lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, , and two children.
