Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

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Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he h — Pankaj Mishra
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappe — Pankaj Mishra
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper a — Pankaj Mishra
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of N — Pankaj Mishra
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post — Pankaj Mishra
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English. — Pankaj Mishra
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, t — Pankaj Mishra
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction. — Pankaj Mishra
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it — Pankaj Mishra
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. — Pankaj Mishra