Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra : Polemist as Novelist

Nandini Nair

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

The Garden of Forking Paths

Nandini Nair

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Pankaj Mishra’s Protest

Siddharth Singh

The impossibility of creating utopias

The World Is What It Is

Nandini Nair

Surviving God and other delights

The Fall of Man in the Age of Anger

S Prasannarajan

What makes this text an indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories is not just the urgency of its argument but the delightful march-past of writers

Books: Highlights of 2017

Nandini Nair

The Importance of Being Earnest

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra

Has Pankaj Mishra Ever Been to South Dakota?

Ethan Casey

For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States. In his recent scathing review of Harvard historian Niall Ferguson’s book Civilisation: The West and the Rest, as in his other writings, Mishra seems interested in America only to the extent that he can caricature its ruling elite in order to knock them down, says Ethan Casey