Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishrais an Indian essayist and novelist and a recipient of the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIndia
intense promising sameness turns
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
experience wide
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
imperial power
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.