
One day in 2008, mostly on a whim, he decided to move back to India and travel all over the country with his family. Sanjeev spent most of his adult life battling international financial markets, a few years in Mumbai and many in Singapore. These experiences made him a keen observer of rapidly changing societies, an interest that reflects in many of his varied writings.

He spent the tumultuous summer of 1993 in South Africa as it transitioned from apartheid, and then extensively travelled through Guatemala as it emerged from civil war.

He grew up in Sikkim, Kolkata and Delhi before heading off to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. This resulted in his hugely popular second book, Land of the Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer.

Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer.
