Author: Pankaj Mishra

We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia …

Asiens Antwort auf den westlichen Imperialismus: »Provokant, beschämend und überzeugend« The Times Nachdem die letzten Erben des Mogul-Reiches getötet und der Sommerpalast in Peking zerstört war, sch …

+++ Im Schatten des Drachen – ein kluger Blick auf das »Reich der Mitte« und seine Nachbarn +++ Asien ist in Bewegung. Die neue Supermacht China dominiert sowohl den Kontinent als auch den Diskurs üb …

Wie können wir den Ursprung des Hasses erklären, der unsere Welt überzieht – von Amokläufern über den IS bis hin zu Donald Trump, von rachsüchtigem Nationalismus bis zu Rassismus und Frauenfeindlichk …

The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire, burned down …

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In this sparkling collection from one of our greatest essayists, Pankaj Mishra looks at the surprising ways modernity has come to South Asia. With lurid and astonishing characters, including, among o …

Is the Buddha still relevant today and, if so, in what way? Pankaj Mishra tries to answer this question as he travels through poverty-ridden South Asia to gilded Europe and America. Along the way he …

Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, …

In Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra captures an India which has shrugged off its sleepy, socialist air, and has become instead kitschy, clamorous and ostentatious. From a convent-educated be …

Full of unexpected ideas and fresh insights, A Great Clamour is an extraordinary account of contemporary Asia from one of our finest essayists. Journeying through China, Tibet, Mongolia, Taiwan, Indo …

This superb anthology, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, gives us some of the finest writings on India by foreigners over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain s puzzled fascination …

From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their …

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world – from American ‘shooters’ and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism ac …

________________’This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one’ – New Statesman’Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to won …

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‘Die Nation ist der organisierte Eigennutz eines ganzen Volkes, jener Zug an ihm, der am wenigsten menschlich ist.’ Rabindranath Tagores Reden über den ­Nationalismus sind hundert Jahre alt, aber fas …

Eine erhellende Analyse der politischen Irrwege unserer Zeit – jenseits der eurozentrischen Perspektive: Der bekannte Schriftsteller und Publizist Pankaj Mishra nimmt die selbstzufriedenen Gedankenge …

Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays."All history, " writes Maximillian Alvarez, "is the history of empire-a bid for control o …

Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even …

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR’If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it’s this’ THE TIMES’The Romantics looks to Flaubert’s Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. Bu …

FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION’A book that demands to be read’ MOHSIN HAMID ‘Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read’ KAMILA SHAMSIEAr …

Von den feuchten Hütten in Mumbai bis in toskanische Landvillen – »Goldschakal« ist ein schonungsloser Roman über die Ungleichheit der modernen Welt und wie sie auf die intimsten Beziehungen durchsch …

Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US for …

A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos p …

Die kritische Analyse von einem der großen international anerkannten Intellektuellen Bestsellerautor Pankaj Mishra liefert in seinem neuen Buch eine kritische, postkoloniale Analyse des Krieges in Na …