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Pawan Mishra

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PANKAJ MISHRA A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignor...
PANKAJ MISHRA It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Holl...
PANKAJ MISHRA Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-...
PANKAJ MISHRA Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to prov...
PANKAJ MISHRA Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re...
PANKAJ MISHRA Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to ...
PANKAJ MISHRA It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the ju...
PANKAJ MISHRA Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours ...
PANKAJ MISHRA As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one s...
PANKAJ MISHRA As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a tru...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide ...
PANKAJ MISHRA Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules
ANAMIKA MISHRA Preach little, Pray more;
But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
MISHRA ANKIT While four people were killed on the spot, five died in hospital.
BINAYTOSH MISHRA The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. I...
PANKAJ MISHRA In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equalit...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects...
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