Pankaj Mishra
Articles by Pankaj Mishra
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Society
NS Essay - How the British invented Hinduism
- 26 August 2002
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By "reviving" the Hindu religion, the middle classes of India hope to turn their country into a world power. Yet before the 19th century, no such religion existed
Books
It's sex, Jim, but not as we know it. The Kamasutra was no more than a self-help manual for a bored, heartless Indian elite. So why is it so popular today in the decadent west? By Pankaj Mishra
- 03 June 2002
Kamasutra Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar Oxford World's Classics, 231pp, £14.99 ISBN 0192802704
Books
The enigma of arrival. J M Coetzee's latest novel is as bleak as ever. But Pankaj Mishra finds his portrait of post-colonial disappointment and frustrated literary ambitions strangely compassionate, too
- 22 April 2002
Youth J M Coetzee Secker & Warburg, 180pp, £14.99 ISBN 0436205823
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Reflections on a war of ghosts
- 11 February 2002
America, once more, is fighting in a country that it barely understands. Pankaj Mishra on a conflict where very little is as it seems
Politics
The power and the pathos
- 24 September 2001
Terror in America: Essay 1 - Pankaj Mishra, half in love with America, pitied the Muslim jihadis he met because they would never know its generosity. But now, they can exult
Books
Great games and proxy wars. Should we fear the Taliban as harbingers of world destruction? Or are they merely simple young men with stylish turbans and grand delusions? Pankaj Mishra visits a ravaged land
- 02 July 2001
Reaping the Whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan Michael Griffin Pluto Press, 283pp, £19.99 ISBN 0745312748
Books
A mediocre goddess. Indira Gandhi left behind a lonely and unremarkable adolescence to become India's only female prime minister, drawing support from the poor and dispossessed. But she was also a despot, writes Pankaj Mishra, who brought shame, violence and misery to her nation
- 09 April 2001
Indira: a life of Indira Nehru Gandhi Katherine Frank HarperCollins, 578pp, £19.99 ISBN 0002556464
Books
Bring on the babes. Hanif Kureishi once had the potential to become a major writer. But something has gone wrong. Pankaj Mishra on a novelist lost in the labyrinth of his own ego
- 05 March 2001
Gabriel's Gift Hanif Kureishi Faber & Faber, 192pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571202713
Books
Lost in time. For Pankaj Mishra, growing up in India, Anglo-Indians were a source of romance and longing. But they were a community in decline, nostalgic for the privileges of the Raj
- 15 May 2000
The Jadu House: intimate histories of Anglo-India Laura Roychowdhury Doubleday, 291pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385410301
Books
A place of greater danger. What is wrong with India? Two new books attempt to explain the historical background to the conflicts blighting the world's largest democracy
- 24 April 2000
Kashmir in conflict: India, Pakistan and the unfinished war Victoria Schofield, I.B.Tauris, 286pp, £14.95 ISBN 1860645453
