Namit Arora

Namit Arora is an Indian author.

Arora grew up in Gwalior. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He obtained a master's degree in computer engineering from Louisiana. He cut short his career of almost 2 decades in the tech industry of Silicon Valley to return to India in 2013 to write books.

Arora's book Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization has been translated into Hindi and Tamil, and was longlisted for the 2022 Karwaan Book Award. A web-series based on the book, supported by a grant from the Raza Foundation and narrated by Arora himself, debuted recently on The Wire.

Books

 * The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities. Publisher: Three Essays Collective.
 * A California Story. Publisher: Adelaide Books LLC.
 * Love and Loathing in Silicon Valley: A Novel. Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books.
 * Indians: A Brief History of A Civilization. Penguin India.