Snigdha Poonam is the author of Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their World, a book of creative nonfiction that has been globally distributed, widely reviewed, and optioned for film and television. The book won 2018’s Crossword Award for Nonfiction and was longlisted in 2019 for the PEN America Literary Awards. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scroll, The Times of India, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Granta, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times.

Her latest book, Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World (Penguin Random House, India), uses fraud as a lens to examine a technological revolution that brings us closer together while also fragmenting us. The story of fraud, it argues, is the story of globalization—and, perhaps, vice versa.