Pankaj Mishra
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"I am thinking here of the demand that Muslims should reform, that Islam should go through a whole process of reformation. This is an assumption based upon a complete fairytale. It is denying that the reformation was an incredibly traumatic and bloody process for Europe. We should not wish this process on any other people. Yet this demand is made again and again, because the teleology behind this is that the reformation made us a better people. Therefore, this people should also undergo a reformation and eventually give up its faith. But nobody is going give up their faith just because Europeans demand it. For this reason, we are at an impasse."--Pankaj Mishra interview "Secularisation has really created a void of understanding", Julis Koch © Qantara.de 2015 |
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Pankaj Mishra (born 1969) is an Indian writer and thinker.
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Promoting Indian literature
He has introduced new editions of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (Modern Library), E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (Penguin Classics), J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (NYRB Classics), Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Penguin) and R. K. Narayan’s The Ramayana (Penguin Classics). He has also introduced two volumes of V.S. Naipaul’s essays, The Writer and the World and Literary Occasions.
Bibliography
Books
- Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995)
- The Romantics (2000)
- An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World (2004)
- Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond (2006)
- From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (2012)
- A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours (2013)
- Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017) Template:ISBN
Book Chapters
Edited books
- India in Mind, edited by Pankaj Mishra (2005)
