Search Result for "Pankaj Mishra" Showing 1 - 10 of 14 results
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In India, mobile revolution only a click away
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 22/04/2019
» 'On or about December 1910, human character changed," the English novelist Virginia Woolf once wrote. It's no exaggeration to say that human character in...
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Challenging the norms of capitalism
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 27/12/2018
» We live in an age of political earthquakes: That much, at least, seemed clear from newspaper headlines nearly every day of 2018. But intellectual tectonic plates...
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Targeting Huawei will backfire as trade talks suffer
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 12/12/2018
» The arrest last week in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, China's iconic company, is a watershed event. The arrest,...
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China should heed Asia's wise man
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 02/10/2018
» Visiting Beijing in August, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's recently elected prime minister, startled his hosts by boldly warning against a "new version of...
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Cruel new world as sympathy ebbs
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 12/09/2017
» A culture of cruelty is sweeping the world and it cuts across ideological as well as national borders. In India last week, the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a prominent...
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Why resistance to strongmen crumbles so quickly
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 15/11/2016
» The election of Donald Trump, whose campaign trafficked in racism and misogyny, as the president of the United States is a calamity. But And to those who have...
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Modi's grand plan behind rupee ban
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 01/12/2016
» Back in 2014, Narendra Modi's landslide victory was hailed by columnists in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, who predicted that he would prove...
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There's a reason why populists tend to lose elections
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 20/10/2016
» In a democracy, the "people" are the supreme arbiters, and their wisdom speaks through the electoral process. Such is the assumption on which the modern...
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Suu Kyi's challenge
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 24/08/2016
» Yangon is suddenly a city of "phablets". Nowhere in Asia, let alone Europe, have I seen so many supersized smartphones in public spaces, and with such...
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Trump brings issues to the fore
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 08/08/2016
» Political life in the West, it is safe to say, has not witnessed a figure such as Donald Trump for decades. His attacks on the parents of army captain Humayun...