Pankaj Mishra among eight writers to win the $1,50,000 each Yale Lit prize. Mishra won in the non-fiction section; Nadeem Aslam, Jim Crace also win.
Niall Ferguson Vs Pankaj Mishra
Counterfactual historian Niall Ferguson has a habit of lashing out at bad reviews of his work. So you could say Pankaj Mishra pretty much asked f...
An avid reader of magazines and a prolific writer for both Indian and international publications, Pankaj Mishra on the ways magazines impacted his life.
His firm but unpretentious belief that truthful journalism is its own reward saved Outlook from becoming yet another mouthpiece of a self-serving elite
Patrick French's armchair exercise parrots the rosy Western view of India, shunning rigour and ignoring depth for shallow deftness. His 'portrait' is a catalogue of absences.
I found myself reading a great deal of short fiction this year, preferring its brisk epiphanies to the slow satisfactions of long, intricately structured novels
Outlook asked an eminent panel of writers and critics to come up with their choice of the best books of 2009 across different categories. Here’s their take.