James Crabtree discusses his book The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age. Crabtree relays a personal journey through India’s elite to meet billionaires, tycoons, and political power brokers. Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.
This segment is guest hosted by Arun Venugopal.