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About Pankaj Mishra
Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. He is known for his nonfiction books and for writing widely in major international publications. He has 94 quotes on the site. His books include The World After Gaza, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours. He has also published two novels and contributed to The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. His writing has prompted controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson. He won the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024.
More from Pankaj Mishra (94 quotes) →Keep reading Pankaj Mishra
- “Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.”Pankaj Mishra
- “Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.”Pankaj Mishra
- “The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions…”Pankaj Mishra
- “I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., part…”Pankaj Mishra
Indian Wisdom: more sayings
- “I am really very fond of Indian classical music though I have spent my teenage years in Bahrain.”Madhura Naik
- “Indian polity has failed to provide solutions to the common man's problems.”Arvind Kejriwal
- “I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue…”John Barnes
War: more sayings
- “I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Li…”Sarah Snook
- “A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.”Herbert V. Prochnow
- “I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to on…”Christopher McQuarrie
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Books by Pankaj Mishra
From the Ruins of Empire
2013
Age of Anger
2018
Los Romanticos
2000
TEMPTATIONS OF THE WEST
2006