

Komireddi has written from numerous conflict zones-including Syria, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan-and interviewed and profiled various world leaders. The Spectator praised Komireddi as the “VS Naipaul of his generation”. It was selected among the best books of the season by the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement, and named a Book of the Year by India Today and Business Standard.

His first book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, a compressed polemical history of India from Nehru to Narendra Modi, was published to critical and commercial acclaim in the UK (Hurst), India (Westland), and the US (OUP) in 2020. Welcome to the website of Kapil Komireddi, an essayist, author, and journalist.
