Pankaj Mishra
latest news & developmentsThe West will not prevent a Palestinian state’s eventual birth
The birth of Israel had an anti-imperialist pedigree. And Palestine is the unfinished business of that process of self-determination.
Venal politicians disgrace India
Corrupt nexus of corporate and political power is far removed from Ghandi’s vision, writes <b>Pankaj Mishra</b>.
At war with modernity
Two weeks ago, many Western commentators scrambling to interpret the protests in Lhasa found that they did not need to work especially hard. Surely the Tibetans are the latest of…
The new India, and other complacent myths
"India is a roaring capitalist success story." So said a recent issue of Foreign Affairs; and earlier this year many business executives and politicians in India celebrated as…
Becoming modern
In the mid-19th century Karl Marx claimed that European colonisers, though corrupt and violent, were the "unconscious tool of history" that would propel India and China into…