"Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance."
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Pankaj Mishra, born on January 2, 1969, in Almora, India, is a renowned author and essayist celebrated for his incisive commentary on contemporary society and politics. His literary journey began with the acclaimed novel “The Romantics,” but it is his non-fiction work, including “From the Ruins of Empire” and “Age of Anger,” that solidified his reputation as a profound thinker on globalization, modernity, and the complexities of the Indian experience. Mishra’s legacy lies in his ability to weave personal narratives with broader socio-political discourses, offering readers a lens through which to understand the tumultuous world around them.
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"Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular."
Pankaj Mishra"In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support."
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"A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution."
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"The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist."
Pankaj Mishra"Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism."
Pankaj Mishra"So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world."
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"If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction."
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