Pankaj Mishra
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David Berlinski Reviews Pankaj Mishra
Omar Ali promotes David Berlinski’s review of Pankaj Mishra’s essay collection Bland Fanatics, quoting excerpts and linking his own earlier rants, in which he dismisses Mishra as good for virtue…
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Pankaj Mishra and His Discontents
Omar Ali reposts his 2014 reply to a Pankaj Mishra New York Times op-ed, calling the ‘Pankajist worldview’ superficial while conceding that Indian hypernationalism is as real, and potentially as…
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Review: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia (Pankaj Mishra)
A long, reworked chapter-by-chapter rant against Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of Empire. The reviewer argues the book is not about the intellectuals who remade Asia but about post-liberal virtue…
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The passing
Reading Pankaj Mishra’s New York Times op-ed on white nationalism, the author argues that even progressive whites show revealed preferences for living among other whites, citing Bill Clinton’s own town,…
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The Problem with Mishra and Roy
Omar Ali argues that Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali are overrated as voices of India’s left, and that their mix of Marxism, postcolonial theory and environmentalism wastes the…
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Bahá’ís & Pakistan
Responding to Omar Ali’s post on Pankaj Mishra, a Bahá’í writer notes the book’s passage on Jamal-ud-Din Afghani, the Babis and Bahá’í emigres to Bombay, and compares Urdu to the…
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Review: From the Ruins of Empire; The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
A long rolling review, written while reading Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of Empire and reposted after editing, argues the book is not really about the intellectuals who remade Asia,…
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Review: Age of Anger. Pankaj Mishra
An admitted rant rather than a review, aimed less at Pankaj Mishra personally than at the postliberal Eurocentric elite he writes for and who admire him, taking issue with Age…
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Islamicate civilization: It will get worse before it gets better…
Omar Ali writes about the suicide bombing near the Wagah border ceremony, the army’s boast of resilience and India’s suspension of its parade, and offers loose thoughts on Islamicate civilisation,…
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Pankaj Mishra and his discontents…
The author answers Pankaj Mishra’s New York Times op-ed, granting that Indian hypernationalism is real but arguing that Mishra’s worldview, with its distrust of strength and material progress, is neither…
