Re: What are the challenges of being a young writer?

Description: It's not so much about Khanna�s age as it is about the timing of his idea.

Transcript: Of course it typically write this have book are younger people who can endure a couple of years of like grueling travel in the lot of countries. So I mean I think you are referring to being young and writing very ambitious book theoretically or academically or intellectually. I have no idea what I am going to confront because the book hasn’t come out yet, but early responses suggest I mean I was in right to give a lecture at Princeton, I did blogging heads to be this morning with Dan Resino [phonetic] was a very senior academic a tough flexture and he has his own website and blog and he is taking it very seriously a lot of professors have said to me, they are going to assign the book. So they don’t seem to care about my age at all and I think that what happens really is not so much of function of judging who I am but rather the just for [inaudible] nature of the timing. This article and this book is really coming out at the moment when people are saying, if American power is permanently fading, they were still very strong, what comes next or what system replaces the dominant the American dominated system and there isn’t a good answer to that question. But I have been working on that question, and it has been one of my motivations for a few years now, let us come up that answer, so I think the timing is just right and so that matter is last who is delivering the message, then what the message is.

Recorded on: 3/3/08