James Astill is the political editor of The Economist. He was formerly the newspaper's South Asia Bureau Chief, stationed in New Delhi 2007-2010. He has also worked as the newspaper’s defence editor, energy and environment editor and Afghanistan correspondent. He has won several journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence, the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Reporting and a Ramnath Goenka Award for writing on India.

Astill has written a fascinating book about cricket, which sent me scurrying to Wisden to check Tiger Pataudi’s Test batting average ... But he has also written a serious book about India whose problems are illuminated through an extended treatment of the national sporting obsession

James Astill is the political editor of The Economist. He was formerly the newspaper's South Asia Bureau Chief, stationed in New Delhi 2007-2010. He has also worked as the newspaper’s defence editor, energy and environment editor and Afghanistan correspondent. He has won several journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence, the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Reporting and a Ramnath Goenka Award for writing on India.

Astill has written a fascinating book about cricket, which sent me scurrying to Wisden to check Tiger Pataudi’s Test batting average ... But he has also written a serious book about India whose problems are illuminated through an extended treatment of the national sporting obsession

James Astill is the political editor of The Economist. He was formerly the newspaper's South Asia Bureau Chief, stationed in New Delhi 2007-2010. He has also worked as the newspaper’s defence editor, energy and environment editor and Afghanistan correspondent. He has won several journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence, the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Reporting and a Ramnath Goenka Award for writing on India.

Astill has written a fascinating book about cricket, which sent me scurrying to Wisden to check Tiger Pataudi’s Test batting average ... But he has also written a serious book about India whose problems are illuminated through an extended treatment of the national sporting obsession