Pankaj Mishra
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Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
From the Review
February 14, 2008: The Revolt of the Monks
Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma a report by Human Rights Watch
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma by Mary P. Callahan
"Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy" by David I. Steinberg
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
January 17, 2008: The Quiet Heroes of Tibet
June 28, 2007: Impasse in India
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha C. Nussbaum
April 12, 2007: Muslims in the Dark
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
January 12, 2006: The Unquiet American
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney
November 17, 2005: The Misunderstood Muslims
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
October 6, 2005: Massacre in Arcadia
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
June 23, 2005: The Wilderness of Solitude
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
May 26, 2005: A Cautionary Tale for Americans
The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia by William Pfaff
March 10, 2005: The Real Afghanistan
November 18, 2004: Bombay: The Lower Depths
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
August 12, 2004: India: The Neglected Majority Wins!
July 15, 2004: The Empire Under Siege
March 25, 2004: 'The First Citizen of India'
December 18, 2003: Enigmas of Arrival
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
June 12, 2003: The Way to the Middle Way
The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion by Charles Allen
March 27, 2003: The Man, or the Tiger?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
February 27, 2003: Kashmir: One Cheer for Democracy
August 15, 2002: Murder in India
'We Have No Orders to Save You': State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat a report by Human Rights Watch
January 17, 2002: The Afghan Tragedy
November 15, 2001: The Making of Afghanistan
October 18, 2001: Mrs. India
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
May 31, 2001: Dreaming of Mangoes
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
April 26, 2001: You Can't Go Home Again
The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips
March 8, 2001: 'Death in Kashmir': An Exchange
February 22, 2001: The Great Narayan
The English Teacher (1945) by R.K. Narayan
Swami and Friends (1935) by R.K. Narayan
The Bachelor of Arts (1937) with an introductionby Graham Greene
Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi (1949) by R.K. Narayan
The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan
The Vendor of Sweets (1967) by R.K. Narayan
Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) by R.K. Narayan
The Dark Room (1938) by R.K. Narayan
My Dateless Diary: An American Journey (1988) by R.K. Narayan
Malgudi Days (1982) by R.K. Narayan
My Days (1973) by R.K. Narayan
The Guide (1958) by R.K. Narayan
The Financial Expert (1952) by R.K. Narayan
October 19, 2000: Kashmir: The Unending War
October 5, 2000: The Birth of a Nation
September 21, 2000: Death in Kashmir
January 20, 2000: The House of Mr. Naipaul
Between Father and Son: Family Letters by V.S. Naipaul
December 16, 1999: The Other India
September 23, 1999: The Last of His Kind
May 20, 1999: A Spirit of Their Own
Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chugtai, Translated from the Urdu by Tahira Naqvi, by Syeda S. Hamed
Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Anantha Murthy, Translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan
Nirmala by Premchand, Translated from the Hindi by Alok Rai
River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder, Translated from the Urdu by the author., (to be published in November 1999)
Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 edited by Salman Rushdie, by Elizabeth West
June 25, 1998: A New, Nuclear, India?
April 9, 1998: Edmund Wilson in Benares
From New York Review Books
 | The Siege of Krishnapur The Siege of Krishnapur— thought by many to be Farrell's finest novel—chronicles the year of the Great Mutiny in India, when the sepoys turned in bloody rebellion against their complacent British overlords. |
Books by Pankaj Mishra
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond (2006)
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004)
The Romantics (2000)
Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995)