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Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS

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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's Gilded Age

James Seneca is the author of The Billionaire Raj, a journey through India's Gilded Age. He started out in London after he graduated undergrad working in British think tanks. James moved to Singapore in 2016 with the aim of doing something not terribly unusual: write a book about India. And so I turned that one year sabbatical into a five-year sabbatical and became kind of a pretend academic at the Lee Kranyu School. Then it was a happy coincidence that the double I double S, which has had an office in Singapore for 20 years, my predecessor who had both been the co architect of the Shangri-La dialogue and had run the office here. So

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