Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishrais an Indian essayist and novelist and a recipient of the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIndia
biggest emerge indonesia
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
imperial power
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
wisdom
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
birthday wrote
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.
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In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.