Pankaj Mishra: “Modernisation is offered as a liberation, and yet it comes with many psychic costs”

Pankaj Mishra takes a critical view of the myths of modernity and reflects on the consequences of imposing the Western model on post-colonial countries. We take a look at his work as an essayist and his recent return to fiction.
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[@Seekho]

Pankaj drastically changed my life with this one article about new book of Niall Ferguson. His idea that the subcontinent suffered because of Britain and it's policies had not been so clearly addressed before. I was pro western ideology all my life and felt the same disorientation he talks about, until I read the article and then adopted my own eastern roots. I am indebted. Massive respect to you sir. From Pakistan.

[@murtazabashir7870]

Plz share the link of the article here

[@BholeV]

You need to read Naipaul to know that he copies him in style and thought.

[@amritkumar7488]

​@@BholeVI won't go so far. He is certainly have a naipualian way of looking. But saying he copies him is a bit too far fetched. You should check out the email exchange between pankaj and nikhil. Google the painful sum of things

[@rethinking2023]

thanks to you MR MISHRA, since 2017 i read THE AGE OF ANGER then your thoughts, evaluations and visions accompany me when looking at world events.

[@clumsydad7158]

Excellent and articulate perspective as always. Thank you

[@rrs8421]

spot on totally get what he is saying and how in particular what he says about indian people who leave there culture very helpful

[@shaleel]

brilliant guy

[@VoteDemocrats]

Brilliant? The shirt.

[@rajendradangi2585]

He mentioned mention Gandhi's ideals and growth in same sentence. I came here just reading manu Joseph on conditions of urban life in India and he blamed it in way gandhi for talking about villages , villages economy, cleanliness yet gandhi ignored urban areas....one in a way indicating that India left it's leaders ideals, other is accusing those ideals (at least in economy) the reason for poverty everywhere including urban infrastructure..... Take into account Pankaj Mishra live in foreign land and write about India and manu Joseph live in India and constantly wrote about it.

[@gangamashal2613]

Mishra has polarized view of the effects of Global politics and Globalization and many more . Mishra finds it necessary and impressive that Spain and France and other European countries have not had rupture with their past, old parents, cultural and tradition; while Indians do. While Mishra draws a comparison, he sticks to the Ideas of an Independent India only but when we're trying to mend things (A decolonisation process of postcolonial countries ) and blur the boundaries in every spectrum, somehow it becomes un-cool for the Globe. Ofcourse there is the language gap in Indian homes but Indians make great efforts to balance it. This is somehow not cool to put it in public for Mishra I guess.

[@TheWestsideFamily]

Wow he is such an inspiration for us young

[@PeterStaudtFischbach]

and also for the elderly 👍

[@VoteDemocrats]

Dont need hope, anymore

[@ambassador3365]

What abt the so called dalits, moslems who live on reservation in India but still cry victim in the west ?

[@VoteDemocrats]

Do they? Same folks?

[@ambassador3365]

The new India turned its back on Gandhi , Nehru because it learnt the Truth about them .

[@rrs8421]

please read gandhi read nehru read tagore read the Gita look at indian history if your at all interested understand the position India was in do you think that Bosh would of achieved independence are you crying because of Pakistan? because of china and Tibet now you have your ultra right wing hindu government who are misusing the knowledge the power of the philosophy of what india is are you satisfied you believe the rubbish they put out they are destroying india wake up save india from its own exploitation by its own government blind obey the master that’s the trouble refuse to think outside the box

[@ambassador3365]

And u Mishra , grew up with arabic nd urdu 😂

[@kanchhediachamaar9289]

Can modernization be talked about only in English?

[@VoteDemocrats]

Says who?

[@AudioPervert1]

His new book AGE OF ANGER, is kickass... As in terms of getting to know the rise of the Right, failure of the Left, and that there is no difference between the two sides - who both serve late capitalism.

[@VoteDemocrats]

I will read Age of Anger. The Left have been a let-down because of the failure of China and Russia to empower it.