The Billionaire Raj: A Journey through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree

‘They were careless people,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of his characters in The Great Gatsby, his classic novel of post-Gilded Age excess. ‘They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess.’

‘Leverage is flight. Leverage is a way for small to be big and big to be huge . . . To leverage is to be immortal,’ as Mohsin Hamid wrote in his 2013 novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.