Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra (born 9 February 1969) is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include ''Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond'', along with ''From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia'', and ''A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours'', and he has published two novels. He is a prolific contributor to periodicals such as ''
The Guardian'', ''
The New York Times'', ''
The New Yorker'' and the ''
New York Review of Books'' and was previously a
Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with
Salil Tripathi,
Niall Ferguson, and
Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the
Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024.
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