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Pankaj Mishra

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ARTICLES BY PANKAJ MISHRA

Racism remains an elephant in the room on Rishi Sunak’s chances (Photo: Bloomberg)

Struggling Sunak should not pander to the Tory party base

4 min read . 08 Aug 2022

Demonstrators take part in a rally in support of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and calling for a printed vote model at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo. (AFP)

A new age of anger awaits India and Brazil

3 min read . 02 Aug 2021

The US response to 9/11 may not have had adequately diverse inputs (Photo: iStock)

Why America’s Afghan project was doomed all along anyway

3 min read . 11 Jul 2021

Nehru called the Dulles brothers 'Dull, Duller, Dulles'

Emerging countries won’t pick sides in the US-China cold war

3 min read . 05 Apr 2021

Meghan Markle has rattled Buckingham Palace with her statements (Photo: AFP)

A big royal marriage was never going to end racism in the UK

3 min read . 11 Mar 2021

Emmanuel Macron is veering far-right on race as French polls approach. (Photo: Reuters)

The UK and France ought to wake up and reckon with race

3 min read . 21 Feb 2021

The world’s great democracies seem high on their own supply (Photo: AP)

The world’s most prominent democracies need humility

3 min read . 28 Dec 2020

This victory may merely mark ‘the end of the beginning’, as Churchill put it. (Photo: Reuters)

America’s age of anger might have just got started, actually

3 min read . 08 Nov 2020

Photo: Getty Images

Opinion | Get ready, there are signals of a bigger disruption on its way

4 min read . 18 Mar 2020

G. Mathi Vathanan, the secretary of Odisha’s housing and urban development department. Photo: Pankaj Mishra/Mint

Inside Odisha’s drone-mapped slum titling plan

9 min read . 29 May 2018

A cybercrime police station in Jamtara, Jharkhand. Photo: Pankaj Mishra

How villages in Jharkhand’s hinterland have become digital India’s underbelly

12 min read . 08 May 2018

Offering protectionism rather than social protection to ordinary Americans, President Donald Trump is another symptom of a deep political dysfunction. Photo: AP

Donald Trump’s a lonely trade warrior but he’s not alone

3 min read . 17 Apr 2018

Azim Premji, founder of India’s third largest software services company Wipro. Photo: AFP

Azim Premji quietly gives away more to charity

2 min read . 07 Mar 2018

A file photo of China’s President Xi Jinping. Photo: Reuters

No one should have been that shocked by Xi Jinping’s rise

3 min read . 06 Mar 2018

Aruna Sankaranarayanan, an open source developer. Photo: HasGeek

Meet India’s women open source warriors

12 min read . 08 Feb 2018

In Pakistan in late November, another pop-up political outfit besieged the capital city Islamabad, forcing the government to concede to all their demands, which included the harsh implementation of blasphemy laws. Photo: AP

What’s really behind Asia’s upsurge of outrage?

4 min read . 08 Dec 2017

The bull semen stud at Chitale Genus ABS labs in Bhilwadi, Sangli district, Maharashtra. Photo: Pankaj Mishra/FactorDaily

Meet India’s connected cows as dairies push to double milk productivity

13 min read . 04 Dec 2017

In India last week, the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a prominent journalist and critic of Narendra Modi’s government, was met with euphoria by his online supporters. Photo: AP

From Lankesh murder to Myanmar crisis, the world risks replacing compassion with cruelty

4 min read . 11 Sep 2017

Narendra Modi himself assumes a regal indifference as civil society in India is steadily destroyed by his allies and supporters. He certainly doesn’t have to worry much about international disapproval, or even scrutiny. Photo: AP

India’s democracy is taking an illiberal turn

3 min read . 09 Jun 2017

As their great leader fails, inevitably, Narendra Modi’s supporters are likely to intensify their hunt for scapegoats. The next few years, it is safe to say, will be the most treacherous yet for India. Photo: Bloomberg

What’s wrong with Narendra Modi’s outmoded idea of India

4 min read . 24 May 2017

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