Pankaj Mishra
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Freedom fighters
On reports that insurgents cut off the inked fingers of 11 voters in Herat, the poster mocks admirers of Taliban ‘freedom fighters’ who blame the West, with a news extract…
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Politics
Ummah firster vs. Dharma firster
Casting India’s contest as Ummah-firsters against Dharma-firsters, the poster says the former expect a lower caste-Muslim alliance to topple upper-caste rulers, and warns with the case of Jogendranath Mandal, who…
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Epicycles of the Elite Left; The Price is Too Damn High..
Arguing that the work of Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali carries a real opportunity cost for educated South Asian liberals, the poster blames a mix of Marxism-Leninism, postcolonial…
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The patron saint of the neo-Hindus
Responding to Pankaj Mishra’s ‘neo-Hindus’, the poster argues that Shudras and Dalits voting BJP is not simply false consciousness: the upper castes, it says, have lost control of the RSS…
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Politics
Voice of the Hindus
The poster defends Three Idiots against Pankaj Mishra’s dislike of Chetan Bhagat, then reproduces Bhagat’s column listing dos and don’ts for Hindus as results approach, including that Hindus should not…
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Politics
Pankaj Mishra fires back at neo-Hindus
A joking introduction listing Pankaj Mishra’s likes and dislikes, followed by a very long reproduced article in which Mishra attacks the rise of the ‘neo-Hindus’ after the election.
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Culture
Pankaj Mishra and Nadeem Aslam
Congratulations to Pankaj Mishra and Nadeem Aslam on winning Yale’s Windham Campbell Literature Prize, followed by extracts on the prize and a Guardian profile of Aslam.
