India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy

CASI Seminar

A Book Talk with the Author
Moderated by Bilal Baloch (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

In partnership with CASI & Perry World House

Ravi Agrawal
Managing Editor, Foreign Policy
Perry World House | World Forum |
3803 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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About the Author:
Ravi Agrawal is the Managing Editor of Foreign Policy and an award-winning journalist. He previously worked for CNN for more than a decade in London, New York, and New Delhi, where he served as South Asia bureau chief. Agrawal currently lives in Brooklyn. India Connected is his debut book.

Book Sale & Signing:
India Connected will be sold by a representative of the Penn Bookstore at Perry World House immediately following the talk at 1:30 p.m.

About the Book:
India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018)
The rise of smartphones—and with them access to the Internet—has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. India Connected takes readers on a journey across India to show how these devices have helped people leapfrog over the technological advances of the West, disrupting centuries of tradition and barriers of wealth, language, literacy, caste, and gender.

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The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.