Namit Arora

Namit Arora is an Indian author.

Arora grew up in Gwalior. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He obtained a master's degree in computer engineering from Louisiana. He cut short his career of almost 2 decades in the tech industry of Silicon Valley to return to India in 2013 to write books.

Arora's book Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization has been translated into Hindi and Tamil, and was longlisted for the 2022 Karwaan Book Award. He is an Indian author. A web-series based on the book, supported by a grant from the Raza Foundation and narrated by Arora himself, debuted recently on The Wire.