Bio
John Elliott is a former Financial Times journalist, whose best-selling book IMPLOSION: India’s Tryst with Reality was published earlier this year by Harper Collins India. Based in New Delhi, he writes a blog on South Asia current affairs: http://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/.
He first came to India in 1983 to open the FT’s South Asia bureau, and in 1988 was posted to Hong Kong. He returned to India in 1995 and has reported for The Economist, Fortune magazine, theNew Statesman,and now for Hong Kong-based AsiaSentinel.com. In 1995 he wrote “India and China – Asia’s New Giants: Stepping Stones to Prosperity”, for the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies. He lead-edited an anthology, “Foreign Correspondent – 50 years of Reporting South Asia” ” (Penguin India, 2008/9).