Based on the author's recent travel experiences in some small towns in India.

Butter chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India

Travel

Mishra, Pankaj

Asia

Penguin Books Australia

Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country--and self. A resonant and ambitious novel, The Romantics is both the story of a sentimental education and of the widening fault lines within contemporary India.

The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.

In Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra captures an India which has shrugged off its sleepy, socialist air and has become instead kitschy, clamorous and ostentatious. From a convent educated beauty pageant aspirant to small shopkeepers planning their vacation in London, Pankaj Mishra paints a vivid picture of a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. An absolute classic, this is a witty and insightful account of Indias aspirational middle class.

Butter Chicken In Ludhiana: Travels In Small Town India

India in Mind [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2013] Mishra; Pankaj (Ed.)

History

Temptations Of The West: How To Be Modern In India And Beyond

Temptations Of The West: How To Be Modern In India And Beyond [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2014] MISHRA PANKAJ

an end to suffering: the buddha in the world [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2013] PANKAJ MISHRA

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

India Penguin

‘thoughtful, intelligent, rigorous and deeply insightful' timeout full of unexpected ideas and fresh insights, a great clamour is an extraordinary account of contemporary asia from one of our finest essayists. Journeying through china, tibet, mongolia, taiwan, indonesia, malaysia and japan, mishra explores the contradictions and dynamism of modern-day china, simultaneously drawing a vivid portrait of its neighbours and the shadow the restless giant casts over its stage. ‘intriguing vignettes of (china's) transformation' business world.

A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours [Paperback] [Sep 29, 2014] Pankaj Mishra

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Allen Lane.

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

An End to Suffering tells of Pankaj Mishra's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today's world, where religious violence, poverty and terrorism prevail. As he travels among Islamists and the emerging Hindu Muslim class in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Mishra explores the myths and places of the Buddha's life, the West's "discovery" of Buddhism, and the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Mishra ultimately reaches an enlightenment of his own by discovering the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in this "unusually discerning, beautifully written, and deeply affecting reflection on Buddhism" (Booklist).

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Picador

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