People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.


Pawan Mishra

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The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on h...
PANKAJ MISHRA
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater...
PANKAJ MISHRA
For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much hap...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in or...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The king has been moving towards absolute monarchy, which in my view won't work. We have to persuade...
BRAJESH MISHRA
All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.
BRAJESH MISHRA
But the visit of President Bush has been, in my view, a success and it has been a good visit.
BRAJESH MISHRA
Normally, what happens is that you negotiate in advance and then you sign something with the head of...
BRAJESH MISHRA
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant ren...
PANKAJ MISHRA
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic conse...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally en...
PANKAJ MISHRA
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern w...
PANKAJ MISHRA
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified d...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary op...
PANKAJ MISHRA
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was s...
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...
PANKAJ MISHRA