Articles by Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra

A Lakhnawi Flaneur

His firm but unpretentious belief that truthful journalism is its own reward saved Outlook from becoming yet...

Mar 23, 2015 Pankaj Mishra ON Vinod Mehta
Eastern Promises

To understand contemporary Asia as a whole, one has to understand China—now more so than ever.

Sep 23, 2013 Pankaj Mishra
A Poet Unwelcome

On Tagore’s unkind reception in China, adapted exclusively for Outlook by the author from his forthcoming...

Aug 13, 2012 Pankaj Mishra
A Curzon Without An Empire

Patrick French's armchair exercise parrots the rosy Western view of India, shunning rigour and ignoring depth...

Jan 31, 2011 Pankaj Mishra
Pages To Turn To

I found myself reading a great deal of short fiction this year, preferring its brisk epiphanies to the slow...

Dec 27, 2010 Pankaj Mishra
Pre-Fab Reporting

Globalisation and its belief systems have streamed into reporting in, and from, Asia

Nov 01, 2010 Pankaj Mishra
A Good Shelfful: The Best Books Of 2009

Outlook asked an eminent panel of writers and critics to come up with their choice of the best books of 2009...

Dec 28, 2009 Khushwant Singh
India: A Massacre Justified By Philanthropy?

For all our denial and bluster on Kashmir, the Indian state's secular narcissism may not survive a Modi on...

Oct 06, 2008 Pankaj Mishra
Superman Never Returns

India can go ape—or it can learn to talk to itself and the world

Aug 20, 2007 Pankaj Mishra
A Sattvic Nomad

Thela, dhaba, chai shack...it's these dots on the map that give you the real Gastronomical Survey of India

Jan 15, 2007 Pankaj Mishra
In Bed With Celebrity

Is there hope when Page 3 vacuity occupies our media space?

Oct 17, 2005 Pankaj Mishra
Reason, The Real Reason Why India Lives

Sen sees the vitality of our civilisation in 'tarkvaad' but can it cure our social imbalances?

Jul 11, 2005 Pankaj Mishra
Brown's Sahib

Fruitful criticism of Nehru, but a lost chance to relate BJP's India to his idea of India

Oct 13, 2003 Pankaj Mishra
When The Moon Landed In America

It appears disingenuous now to be outraged by the moral nullity of America's leaders, the lynchmob rage they...

Oct 01, 2001 Pankaj Mishra
Is This Love?

Extracts from Pankaj Mishra's Romantics, shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award

Apr 21, 2001 Pankaj Mishra
Other Side Of The Vale

We must move on from vague liberal concerns about ‘Indian brutality in Kashmir' to a detailed study of the...

Nov 06, 2000 Pankaj Mishra
Paper Jehadis And The Lie Of The Land

A reply to the charges levelled by Prem Shankar Jha in his last week's column

Oct 09, 2000 Pankaj Mishra
Little Inkling

Writing in English, an Indian elite discovers nothing

Nov 15, 1999 Pankaj Mishra
Rebel With A Clause

Strangely, more a litany of victimhood than intellectual memoir

Oct 25, 1999 Pankaj Mishra
The Art Of Inquisition

A connoisseur of culture and civilisation, Nirad C. Chaudhuri refined the art of self-cultivation

Aug 16, 1999 Pankaj Mishra ON Nirad C. Chaudhuri