An interpreter of change,Zakaria at Adda today

Born in Mumbai in 1964,Zakaria received his doctorate from Harvard University.

For more than a decade,the world has been undergoing its third great power shift,as Americas dominance shrinks. This new world requires a new thinking,and Fareed Zakaria has been that interpreter of change,ever since he took over as editor of Newsweek International in 2000.

Now editor-at-large and columnist with Time magazine,Zakaria is the guest on Monday night at the Express Adda in New Delhi.

The Adda is a series of conversations with people at the centre of change,and has earlier hosted Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf,New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman,actors Shah Rukh Khan and Vidya Balan,and BJP leader Arun Jaitley. Zakaria will be in conversation with Shekhar Gupta,Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express,and Express Contributing Editor C Raja Mohan.

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Long before the Arab Spring,in his 2003 book The Future of Freedom,Zakaria had diagnosed the problems of illiberal democracy,which implements electoral mechanisms without fundamental safeguards for freedom,unlike liberal Western democracies where universal suffrage followed liberal constitutionalism and the rule of law,making the vote count.

In a Newsweek cover called Why They Hate US after 9/11,Zakaria had claimed that a more open Arab society would generate the dynamism needed to modernise Islam.

With his book The Post-American World (2008),Zakaria came to the forefront of defining the world we inhabit now.

Born in Mumbai in 1964,Zakaria received his doctorate from Harvard University. In 2010,he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.