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
writing passion thinking
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.
believe writing passion
I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.
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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.
birthday wrote
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
wisdom
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
fully intend novelist novels several
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.
languages marx national rather trade
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
attempted brought education given initially
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.
came categories century norms truly
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
biggest emerge indonesia
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
among promoting
In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.