After Nations

Rana Dasgupta is the author of two novels and a non-fiction portrait of twenty-first century Delhi. He was a visiting fellow in the humanities at Princeton University and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Brown University. His essays have been published in The Guardian, New Statesman and BBC.com and his writing has won the Windham Campbell Prize, the Commonwealth Prize and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award.

Rudra Chatterjee is the MD of Luxmi Group and the Chairman of Obeetee. Luxmi is a tea producer with estates in Assam, West Bengal and Tripura in India and in Rwanda, Africa. Makaibari, acquired by Luxmi in 2013, produces some of the most famous teas in the world. He is also a Director of Luxmi Township that develops vibrant and inclusive urban spaces. Obeetee is India’s largest carpet company that exports carpets to the United States and Europe and has won numerous Indian and International awards for its social accountability, environment stewardship and design leadership. In 2016, he founded Manor and Mews, a UK-based furniture company.