Pankaj Mishra

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana

Story of an unlikely friendship between two men from different social classes

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Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra

Indian essayist and novelist whose Age of Anger traced the cultural roots of modern terrorism and populism in the Romantic reaction against Enlightenment rationalism. From the Ruins of Empire examined Asian intellectual responses to Western imperialism. He is the most cosmopolitan of contemporary essayists.

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