Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world. Pankaj Mishra experiencefreshlygandhi Change image and share on social
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English. Pankaj Mishra 11thbirthdayenglish Change image and share on social
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance. Pankaj Mishra daydominantfelt Change image and share on social
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra ambivalencebearcelebrate share on social
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way. Pankaj Mishra americanarabbig share on social
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination. Pankaj Mishra capitalismcentralisedomination Change image and share on social
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens. Pankaj Mishra americaanimatedaydream Change image and share on social
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. Pankaj Mishra chafeethnicindia Change image and share on social
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages. Pankaj Mishra diversityethnicfifty share on social
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. Pankaj Mishra britishcounterpartdecade Change image and share on social
