Hindol Sengupta is a best-selling writer of eight books including Being Hindu, The Modern Monk and Recasting India . He is the youngest writer to be short-listed for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek. In India, he has been the youngest winner of the PSF award for public service, which has, among its earlier winners, the late Indian scientist and President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and has been a journalist with the Indian editions of CNBC, CNN and the Fortune magazine, and is a columnist with the Aspen Institute Italia. He is a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.