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.
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Afghanistan: The India & Kashmir Connection
January 14, 2010
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The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back
December 3, 2009
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman
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From a Mansion Near Tora Bora
October 23, 2008
The Wasted Vigil
by Nadeem Aslam
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Sentimental Education in Shanghai
June 12, 2008
Fortress Besieged
by Qian Zhongshu, translated from the Chinese by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao, with a foreword by Jonathan Spence
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The Revolt of the Monks
February 14, 2008
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
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
by Thant Myint-U
“Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy” by David I. Steinberg
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The Quiet Heroes of Tibet
January 17, 2008
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Impasse in India
June 28, 2007
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future
by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Muslims in the Dark
April 12, 2007
In the Country of Men
by Hisham Matar
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
by Laila Lalami
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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The Unquiet American
January 12, 2006
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
by Lewis M. Dabney
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The Misunderstood Muslims
November 17, 2005
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
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Massacre in Arcadia
October 6, 2005
Shalimar the Clown
by Salman Rushdie
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The Wilderness of Solitude
June 23, 2005
Maps for Lost Lovers
by Nadeem Aslam
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A Cautionary Tale for Americans
May 26, 2005
The Bullet’s Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia
by William Pfaff
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The Real Afghanistan
March 10, 2005
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Bombay: The Lower Depths
November 18, 2004
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
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India: The Neglected Majority Wins!
August 12, 2004
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The Empire Under Siege
July 15, 2004
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‘The First Citizen of India’
March 25, 2004
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Enigmas of Arrival
December 18, 2003
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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The Way to the Middle Way
June 12, 2003
The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India’s Lost Religion
by Charles Allen
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The Man, or the Tiger?
March 27, 2003
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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Kashmir: One Cheer for Democracy
February 27, 2003
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Murder in India
August 15, 2002
‘We Have No Orders to Save You’: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat a report by Human Rights Watch
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The Afghan Tragedy
January 17, 2002
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The Making of Afghanistan
November 15, 2001
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Mrs. India
October 18, 2001
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
by Katherine Frank
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Dreaming of Mangoes
May 31, 2001
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
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You Can’t Go Home Again
April 26, 2001
The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips
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‘Death in Kashmir’: An Exchange
March 8, 2001
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The Great Narayan
February 22, 2001
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
The Dark Room (1938) by R.K. Narayan
Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi (1949) by R.K. Narayan
Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) by R.K. Narayan
The Vendor of Sweets (1967) by R.K. Narayan
The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan
My Dateless Diary: An American Journey (1988) by R.K. Narayan
The Financial Expert (1952) by R.K. Narayan
The Guide (1958) by R.K. Narayan
My Days (1973) by R.K. Narayan
Malgudi Days (1982) by R.K. Narayan
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Kashmir: The Unending War
October 19, 2000
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The Birth of a Nation
October 5, 2000
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Death in Kashmir
September 21, 2000
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The House of Mr. Naipaul
January 20, 2000
Between Father and Son: Family Letters
by V.S. Naipaul
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The Other India
December 16, 1999
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The Last of His Kind
September 23, 1999
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A Spirit of Their Own
May 20, 1999
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
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A New, Nuclear, India?
June 25, 1998
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Edmund Wilson in Benares
April 9, 1998
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Kashmir: "The World's Most Dangerous Place"
March 4, 2010
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Afghanistan: The Forgotten Conflict in Kashmir
December 8, 2009