India Reborn : The Epic Story of a Civilization's Rebound from Two Centuries of Decline

Prasenjit K. Basu is an economist by profession and a historian by passion. His book Asia Reborn won the Best First Book Award at the Tata Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest in 2018.He spent 25 years in Singapore and Malaysia, including five years each as the chief economist for India and Southeast Asia at Credit Suisse First Boston and the chief Asia economist at Daiwa Securities. He was the first non-Malaysian employee of Khazanah Nasional Bhd., where he served as the chief economist. He also held leadership roles as the global research head at the Maybank Kim Eng Group, director of Asia macroeconomics at UBS Securities, chief ASEAN economist and head of Malaysia equity research at Macquarie, board member of Tata Capital Pte Ltd, and chief economist at ICICI Securities. His career began in the United States, where he worked successively as a consultant, economist, and later the director of the Asia Service at Wharton Econometrics.P.K. Basu holds dual master’s degrees in public administration and international relations as well as a PhD in international political economy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, ESSEC Business School (Singapore), and SP Jain School of Global Management (Singapore and Dubai).He was the founding president of the Tagore Society (2003–2020) and India Club (2006–2018) in Singapore. His writings have appeared in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Times of India, Indian Express, and other publications. He is a frequent commentator on platforms such as the BBC, CNBC Asia, CNN, Republic TV, Times Now, and CNN-IBN.