From Pankaj Mishra, the Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author of The World After Gaza, a meditation on the life and legacy of the Buddha, refracted through one mans search for identity and one nations experience of independence....Loe edasi...
The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...Loe edasi...
The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9798217058891)
Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” —Naomi Klein“This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers...Loe edasi...
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding NAOMI K...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Is the Buddha still relevant today and, if so, in what way? Pankaj Mishra tries to answer this question as he travels through poverty-ridden South Asia to gilded Europe and America. Along the way he discovers how Buddhist thought has flowered even in...Loe edasi...
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 cou...Loe edasi...
This superb anthology, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, gives us some of the finest writings on India by foreigners over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs to J.R. Ackerley’s...Loe edasi...
