Pankaj Mishra
The Indonesian military killed as many as one million suspected communists in the mid-1960s
Updated 31 Oct, 2017 08:42am
LAST week, as the shocking results of the British elections arrived, the most over-used sentence in Britain seemed ...
Published 16 Jun, 2017 07:07am
Neither routine killings, nor endless crackdowns and curfews have changed or will change Kashmir’s ground realities.
Updated 25 Feb, 2016 10:48am
Trump has made a little-acknowledged phenomenon seem incontrovertible: Islamophobia.
Updated 19 Dec, 2015 08:10am
Religious extremism, in South Asia is symptomatic of a larger and more complex phenomenon.
Updated 10 Oct, 2015 10:04am
Religious-political chauvinism is being amplified by those in power in India and Israel.
Updated 16 Jul, 2015 06:54am
HISTORY clearly didn’t end with the triumph of market capitalism and democracy. Those who seek to disprove this ...
Published 21 Jun, 2015 06:59am
'It will be increasingly hard to avoid the clear message from the elections: Little Englandism has finally gone big.'
Updated 13 May, 2015 07:22am
THE preliminary nuclear agreement with Iran, which has been long in the making, may succeed or fail. But only a...
Published 08 Apr, 2015 06:19am
Modi as prime minister has actually toned down his rhetoric, and the demand that he focus on economic modernisation
Updated 24 Dec, 2014 08:47am
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had promoted a national ethic of austerity and self-restraint.
Updated 26 Nov, 2014 08:22am
A quarter-century later, the event seems to have also been a prelude to the rebirth of Berlin.
Updated 29 Oct, 2014 06:40am
DENUNCIATIONS of “religious extremism”, always commonplace, have never sounded more persuasive as Islamic State...
Published 01 Oct, 2014 06:43am
The hills and lochs of Scotland are an unlikely place to recall the words of India’s first prime minister,...
Published 01 Sep, 2014 06:02am
All three leaders possess ideological bases like the Reagan had among Christian fundamentalists and neoconservative.
Published 20 Aug, 2014 06:28am
THE swift victories of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Iraq bring to mind the prescient words of John...
Published 24 Jun, 2014 06:55am
INDIA and Indonesia, relegated to the ranks of the “fragile five” economies, have witnessed a sudden uptick in...
Published 25 Apr, 2014 06:32am
VLADIMIR Putin’s aggressive foray into Eurasia, and the possibility of a new cold war with the West, has actually...
Published 19 Mar, 2014 07:19am
THE spectre of secession suddenly haunts Ukraine and Thailand, two countries where demonstrators have...
Published 05 Mar, 2014 07:44am