Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.

You may know me as the author of several books, which are just screenshots of my best tweets,

but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media

Podcast Network.

Today in the Red Chair is James Crabtree, who has the best name ever.

He has written a new nonfiction book about the world of quote reclusive billionaires,

fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers, and it's not about America,

it's about India.

The book is called The Billionaire Raj, and it's out now in hardcovered James, welcome

to Recode Decode.

Thanks for having me.

So, let's talk a little bit about the book itself.

But first, how did you get to writing about billionaire Raj's in India?

I loved India.

Give me your little history, your short history.

My little history.

I moved to India in 2011, and I lived there for five years in Mumbai, the financial capital.

I'm a journalist like you, by background.

I used to work for the financial times and various other magazines.

That's a fancy newspaper, I don't understand.

It is a nice pink newspaper.

And so, what I was there, I mean, a lot of foreign correspondence and at writing books

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