Parul Sehgal in NYTBR

September 17, 2011 | 1 book mentioned

“What does it mean to be rich in a poor country? Or to possess power that you don’t want? Why have the ‘educated classes’ in India and Pakistan abdicated their social responsibilities?” Parul Sehgal reviews Aatish Taseer’s Noon for The New York Times.

is an associate editor for The Millions. She works for the New York Civil Liberties Union, the NY Chapter of the ACLU. She was formerly a writer for The Atlantic's news website The Wire, and a co-editor of NY media blog FishbowlNY. Her writing has appeared in The Millions, TheAtlantic.com, Newsday, National Journal, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and is partly collected at her website, TheCivilWriter.com. Follow @ujalasehgal.