Age Of Anger

Pankaj, Mishra

Penguin

Against The Grain: Lessons From The Outliers

<p>Pankaj mishra's provocative account of how china, india and the muslim world are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the orwell prize 2013shortlisted for the orwell prize 2013viewed in the west as a time of self-confident progress, the victorian period was experienced by asians as a catastrophe. As the british gunned down the last heirs to the mughal empire or burned down the summer palace in beijing, it was clear that for asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Pankaj mishra re-tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the chinese communist party to the muslim brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today.reviews:'arrestingly original ... This penetrating and disquieting book should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to under</p>

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

History

Asia

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Allen Lane.

<p>Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2001-2-1 Pages: 277 A first novel set in contemporary India. this book describes howSamar. a young Brahmin. escapes a future of small-town jobs to livein Benares. losing himself in books and solitude Here. . he meetsCatherine. a French woman who stands at the centre of the eventswhich destroy his equanimity.</p>

The Romantics

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pan/Macmillan

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).

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

Picador

first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares, losing himself in books and solitude. Here, he meets Catherine, a French woman who stands at the centre of the events which destroy his equanimity.

 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination takes him from the realities of Bollywood stardom, to the history of Jawaharlal Nehru's post-independence politics. In Kashmir, he reports on the brutal massacre of thirty-five Sikhs, and its intriguing local aftermath. And in Tibet, he exquisitely parses the situation whereby the atheist Chinese government has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be "packaged and sold to tourists." Temptations of the West is essential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region of the world.

Temptations of the West : How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond

Biographies & Memoirs

After more than fifty years of modernization, india is far from being made over in the image of a western country it often poses hard challenges the reactions it evokes are complex, ranging from awe and wonder to repulsion and rejection' india in mind is a stunning collection of the diverse and vivid reactions that the subcontinent has evoked in the greatest writers of our time its twenty-five pieces range from fiction and non-fiction to poetry, lighting up a thousand forgotten details' about the last hundred and fifty years of a changing india they reveal as much about the authors and their times as, with intuition and intelligence, about this cast country and its people edited and introduction by pankaj mishra, one of the finest writers today, india in mind includes all-time favorites as well as lesser-known treasures jr ackerley attempting to learn hindi; allen ginsberg immersing himself in benares; vs naipaul searching for the india of his imagination-this brilliant collection is for all those who find india endlessly fascinating, as well as for those who enjoy exquisite writing all the contributors are individually introduced

India in Mind

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Pan Macmillan Books India

A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra traveled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London - Mishra captured, with irony and humor, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. '"Butter Chicken in Ludhiana" is a marvelous travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge' - Ashis Nandy. 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, and with such troubled irony, our last decade of change' - Amitava Kumar.

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India

Travel

Picador India

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