• Anand Giridharadas on Speaking Out Against Corruption

    From the Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengraber

    Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.

    Today on episode 63 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Anand Giridharadas to discuss the peril of putting profit ahead of people and what it means to speak out against corruption.

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    Anand Giridharadas is the author of, most recently, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, published by Knopf in 2018. His other books are The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from Death Row the white supremacist who tried to kill him (optioned for movie adaption by Annapurna Pictures); and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left.


    The Quarantine Tapes
    The Quarantine Tapes
    The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.





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