https://sahilhanda.com Sahil Handa Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:46:26 +0000 https://sahilhanda.com en http://sahilhanda.com/Home-Page Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:46:26 +0000 Sahil Handa 398145 SAHIL HANDA [*] My name is Sahil Handa. I was born in North London to Indian parents — one was born in Mombasa, and the other in Gujurat. I spent three years living in India (2006 - 2009) before returning to London for high school at this grammar school. I spent time as a visual artist with the Royal Academy of Arts and as an actor with the National Youth Theatre, and became a solo finalist in a televised dance competition in the UK. I worked at a few startups in Dubai and London for a year, before running around Southeast Asia backpacking, skydiving, and dancing with strangers. I then went to Harvard for undergrad, majoring in Social Studies & Philosophy. I spent two terms at Jesus College, Cambridge in the Spring of 2020, travelled to Eastern Europe for three months, and then moved to New York. I spend almost all of my time working on a company called Typo* (we are reimagining the software people use to create.) Before that, I wrote for publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy, and  was on the founding team at Persuasion, an early politics and culture newsletter with over 50,000 subscribers. I was recently a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and I am a regular columnist at the Mercatus Center. I spend my time reading, writing, walking, drawing, DJing and dancing (literally and metaphorically.) In a past life, I had extremely long hair and played the guitar in a series of bad rock bands. Here’s a list of things that I like: wandering walks, writing in warm light, sipping at jazz bars, painting on canvas, DJing techno, hosting wine nights, dance battles at nightclubs, calisthenics on a sunny day, conjuring up cocktails, curating charming spots, copious note-taking, intentional interior design, elegant oufits, Italian espresso, thinking with friends, laughing with family, touring second hand bookshops, and eating oats. Here’s a selection of some of my (not so) recent writing: - A Collage of Everything Imaginable (October 19, 2023) - Rebel Rebel (February 11, 2022) - Is America Really a Meritocracy? (September 30, 2021) - Personal Essay about James Baldwin and Race in America (August 11, 2021) - Why I’m an Optimist; Commentary on the Zoomers (July 13, 2021) - What the Old Don’t Get About the Woke (January 25, 2021)- How to Tame Tiktok (July 27, 2020)- Boris Johnson’s Victory and the Political Realignment Shaking Western Democracies (January 2, 2020) - Dominic Cummings and the Populist Surge (August 10, 2019) Say hello on Twitter, Goodreads, or at sahil@sahilhanda.com SAHIL HANDA [*] My name is Sahil Handa. I was born in North London to Indian parents — one was born in Mombasa, and the other in Gujurat. I spent three...