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FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION 'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE Arun and his two classmates,...

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'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity' ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural con...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES 'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product o...

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From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image.SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013T...

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How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social ...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times 'This is the most astoni...

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Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own ...

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This superb anthology, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, gives us some of the finest writings on India by foreigners over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain's puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs to J.R. Ackerley...

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'Thoughtful, intelligent, rigorous and deeply insightful'- TimeOut 'Intriguing vignettes of [China's] transformation '- Business World Full of unexpected ideas and fresh insights, A Great Clamour is an extraordinary account of contemporary Asia fr...

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Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013 Viewed in the West as a time of self-confiden...

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This narrative of self-discovery follows the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today's world where religious violence, poverty, and terrorism prevail.

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In his new book, Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal as he sees the pressures of Western-style modernity, prosperity, and globalization on a rapidly changing region.

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Advanced Functional Materials and Methods for Photodegradation of Toxic Pollutants addresses the potential role of visible active photocatalytic methods for the removal of various emerging and persistent organic pollutants (POPs.) Describing the c...

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From Bollywood stars in Bombay worrying whether they are sexy enough to a heroin addict in Pakistan mocking jihad; from Indian mafia dons with political ambitions to Afghans waiting for American benevolence; from Kashmiri Muslims longing for democ...

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A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. Decades of violence and chaos have produced a political and intellectual hysteria r...

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Anyone who is enthralled by India--or who loves fine writing--will delight in this compendium of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by 25 of the country's most astute observers.

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The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take a civil service exam. But in this city redolent of timeworn customs, where pilgrims bathe in the sacred Ganges and breathe in smoke from burning ghats ...

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Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram’s favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club,...

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The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...

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The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...

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The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...

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The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views. It was instrumental in meeting the chal...

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A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation   Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its...

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A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world.

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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR How can we explain the ori...

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A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have g...

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"Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man's humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth-what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illumi...

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