The Romantics

Name: The Romantics
Author: Pankaj Mishra

by Pankaj Mishra

Novel exploring young friendship and disillusionment amid Varanasi's spiritual landscape

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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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