Pankaj Mishra

After Brexit: Growth of global secessionist voices calls for more dialogue and less 'anti-national' slander

Interestingly unlike the Indian government, most of its global counterparts – opposed as many of them are to secessionist forces – do not view the demand for independence as a marker of anti-national sentiment.

Pankaj Mishra: 'Angry, frustrated people are making unwise political choices'

Pankaj Mishra began writing Age of Anger in 2014, after Narendra Modi was voted into power; he finished it in 2016, in the week that led to Brexit; it was printed the same week that Donald Trump was declared the US President Elect.

Amartya Sen vs Jagdish Bhagwati: Pankaj Mishra weighs in

Pankaj Mishra wades into the Sen-Bhagwati wars in his latest review. Despite his own liberal sympathies, what his review reveals is the silliness of ideological warfare.

Behind Pankaj Mishra's rants: A pathology of Hindu-phobia and self hate

What makes a NYT always choose writers like Pankaj Mishra, who seem to have nothing positive ever to say about any Indian aspiration? The Mishras and the rabid Hindutva fanatic are two sides of the same coin of self-hate and denial

Pankaj Mishra's incredible India: Where's he getting his skewed ideas?

Pankaj Mishra's Idea of today's India is so much different from current reality that one wonders where he got his ideas from.

Author Pankaj Mishra wins $150,000 Yale literary prize

Award-winning Indian author Pankaj Mishra is among eight writers from seven countries who have won a $ 1,50,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their literary achievements.

Pankaj Mishra is 'delighted' to win Yale literary prize

Indian writer Pankaj Mishra is one of eight writers from seven countries winning a $150,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their achievements and to support their ongoing work.

Will Narendra Modi deliver? Ratan Tata thinks so, Pankaj Mishra dreads it

Will Narendra Modi as PM be able to deliver the high expectations built around him? He will probably do better than his detractors expect him to and fall short of what his fans expect of him.

Is India 'occupying' Kashmir? Why the Lefties are wrong

Is India doing an Israel in Kashmir? Some pseudo-Leftists seem to think so. But they should know that India is fighting sectarian forces in Kashmir, and not just fighting for a piece of land there.