Sanjaya Baru

Sanjaya Baru is the author of Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India (2025), India's Power Elite: Class, Caste and A Cultural Revolution (2021), 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Made History (2016), The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh (2014), and Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of the Indian Economy (2022). He served as editor of the Economic Times, the Financial Express, and Business Standard, editorial-page editor of the Times of India, and the Indian Express. He was media adviser to former prime minister Manmohan Singh and director for geo-economics and strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London. He taught at universities in India and abroad.