The Cables That Connect Us: Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Network That Runs Our Lives

Samanth Subramanian is a writer and journalist based in London, where he is the acting managing editor of Equator. Subramanian also writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine and The Guardian, among other publications. His last book A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane was one of the New York Times top 100 books of 2020. His second book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Subramanian discusses his latest book, The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World, which describes the subsea cable network that brings us the Internet, the people who lay these cables and the people who wish to control them.