Snigdha Poonam

Snigdha Poonam is the author of ‘Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World’. For fifteen years, her literary nonfiction has explored how transformative forces act on society. Her first book, ‘Dreamers’, portrayed young men and women from India’s small towns whose ambitions reflected both the promise and the limits of a rapidly changing society. The book received wide critical acclaim, was published in several countries, and was optioned for film and television. She is based in Oxfordshire.