Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist and literary critic, born in 1969 in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, who divides his time between London and India. He made his name with “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana” (1995), a travelogue of small-town India, and the novel “The Romantics” (2000). His essays on empire, religion and globalisation include “An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World” (2004), “From the Ruins of Empire” (2012), “Age of Anger” (2017) and “The World After Gaza” (2025). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books.
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Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist and literary critic, born in 1969 in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, who divides his time between London and India. He made his name with “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana” (1995), a travelogue of small-town India, and the novel “The Romantics” (2000). His essays on empire, religion and globalisation include “An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World” (2004), “From the Ruins of Empire” (2012), “Age of Anger” (2017) and “The World After Gaza” (2025). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books.
