Quotes by : Pankaj Mishra

The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India &....

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality....

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who....

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.....

National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation....

Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed....

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but....

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States....