Siddhartha Deb reads from his latest book, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India. He is introduced by Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. Siddhartha Deb was born in northeastern India in 1970. His first novel, The Point of Return, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His reviews and journalism have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Guardian, The Nation, the New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement. He came to New York on a literary fellowship in 1998, and now divides his time between India and New York.