Akash Kapur is author of “Better To Have Gone: Love, Death And The Quest For Utopia In Auroville.” Kapur was raised in an intentional community in India, then moved to the U.S. at age 16, where he ...

“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.

Akash Kapur’s intermittently gripping true account recounts factional conflict and tragedy in a 1960s commune ...

Akash Kapur writes about “The City of Dawn,” established near Pondicherry in southeast India in 1968. ... Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville. By Akash Kapur. Scribner, 344 pp., $27.

• Last assignment : Assistant High Commissioner of India, Rajshahi, Bangladesh from 2013-2015. • Retired from the IFS in December 2015 • Hobbies: Reading, Writing, Travelling and Photography.