Nisid Hajari is Managing Editor of Newsweek. He is writing a history of the Partition of India and Pakistan, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

One of India’s leading journalists talks about the appalling corruption in India, signs of hope from political leaders, and what he thinks of Obama.

Despite criticism of the festival’s cofounder William Dalrymple, the Jaipur festival continues to draw big crowds for another year of stunning talent (J.M. Coetzee, Rory Stewart, Orhan Pamuk). Nisid Hajari reports.