Ravi Agrawal is the managing editor of Foreign Policy. Previously, he worked for CNN for 11 years in full-time roles on three continents-including a four-year stint as New Delhi bureau chief. Agrawal was born in London, grew up in Kolkata, and attended college at Harvard. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Washington, DC.

"This is, quite simply, the best book about India today. It recounts the hard data but also captures the mood of a rising, sprawling, dynamic society. It is centered on the smartphone, which is indeed transforming the world's largest democracy. But the nature of that transformation is complex and nuanced. And Agrawal describes this reality with a novelist's eye and pen. A triumph." --Fareed Zakaria, CNN host and author of The Post-American World

"The smartphone may well rank among fire and electricity in terms of sheer impact on humanity. And as Ravi Agrawal argues in this book, there are few places in the world that have experienced that revolution as forcefully as India. Like no one else, Agrawal highlights just how far India has come with the smartphone, and how much further it can go. A read as entertaining as it is informative." --Ian Bremmer, president and founder, Eurasia Group

"The automobile unleashed American freedom and energy. The smartphone is doing the same for India. To understand why India will succeed, read this fascinating book. Modern India leaps out of its pages." --Kishore Mahbubani, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore

"Agrawal's account is illuminating, eye-opening, and, like the phones it describes, smart. An engaging read!" --Shashi Tharoor, Indian MP from Thiruvananthapuram and author of Inglorious Empire

"India Connected is a must-read for everyone who is interested in contemporary India." --Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies and The Great Derangement

"An engaging storyteller, Ravi Agrawal charts the extraordinary changes and the new hopes cheap smartphones and digital technology are bringing to the day-to-day lives of ordinary Indians." --Mira Kamdar, author of Mobita's Tattoos and India in the 21st Century

"The story of how India has gotten wired is one of the most important in the world, and you'll find no better guide than Ravi Agrawal. He's dug in to give us a story of optimism, intrigue, and profound change. I read it straight through and I suspect you will too." --Nicholas Thompson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired

"Timely and absorbing... What makes this book so hard to put down is the way Agrawal skilfully weaves together the tales of ordinary Indian lives being transformed by digital technology."--Financial Times

"[A] smart, sympathetic and highly readable account."--Oliver Balch, The New Statesman

"A convincing case of how smartphones are creating a brand-new social infrastructure that did not previously exist in India."--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Superb... Agrawal... has the journalist's knack of finding fascinating stories." --Literary Review

"The stories in India Connected are timeless, and will age well into nice snapshots of history."--India Today