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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and ...

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and ...

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West.
Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times 'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco 'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville How ...
The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss

The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss

Ian Almond

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Mignolo, Walter D. 'The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism'. Public Culture 12:3 (2000) pp. 721–48. Mishra, Pankaj. The Romantics. Picador Books, 1999. Mishra, Pankaj.
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, ...

The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, ...

David T Johnson

1994. “Unmasking the Monster.” New York Review of Books 41(19). Mishima, Yukio. 1958. Confessions of a Mask. New York: New Directions. Mishra, Pankaj. 2006a. “The Myth of the New India.” New York Times. July 6. Mishra, Pankaj. 2006b ...
Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century before leading us to the present.
Desi-American Reflections on Suffering Change: Secrets of 'A ...

Desi-American Reflections on Suffering Change: Secrets of 'A ...

Ravi Prakash G. Dani

In: Bortolloti, Lisa (ed): Philosophy and Happiness. Palgrave McMillan, New York, N. Y. pp100-115. Mishra, Pankaj. 2004. An End To Suffering. The Buddha in the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, N. Y. 422 p. Mishra, Pankaj. 2006.
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

Pankaj Mishra

An accomplished history of the Buddha, An End to Suffering is also a deeply personal story -- the story of Pankaj Mishra's search for meaning, for truth and peace in the modern world and, specifically, in post-colonial, independent India.
Husband Of A Fanatic

Husband Of A Fanatic

Amitava Kumar

Mishra, Pankaj. 'Death in Kashmir', New York Review of Books, September 21, 2000. Also see Mishra, 'The Birth of a Nation', New York Review of Books, October 5, 2000, and Mishra, 'Kashmir: The Unending War', New York Review of Books, ...
Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India

Pankaj Mishra

An absolute classic, this is a witty and insightful account of India’s aspirational middle class.
The Romantics

The Romantics

Mishra Pankaj

Set in contemporary India, The Romantics tells the story of Samar, a young man who goes to live in Benares to avoid a small-town job and to lose himself in reading and a world beyond himself.
India in Mind: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

India in Mind: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

Pankaj Mishra

From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs to J.R. Ackerley’s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, here are pieces that will amuse, charm and surprise.
A Great Clamour: Encounters With China And Its Neighbours

A Great Clamour: Encounters With China And Its Neighbours

Pankaj Mishra

Full of unexpected ideas and fresh insights, A Great Clamour is an extraordinary account of contemporary Asia from one of our finest essayists.
Yes: Screenplay and Notes

Yes: Screenplay and Notes

Sally Potter

Contents include: Foreword and Screenplay by Sally Potter Introductions by John Berger and Pankaj Mishra Q&A with Sally Potter and Joan Allen 16-page color photograph section with 28 photographs
Troubled Testimonies: Terrorism and the English Novel in India

Troubled Testimonies: Terrorism and the English Novel in India

Meenakshi Bharat

Mishra, Pankaj. 2006. 'Wounded by the West: Review of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss', The New York Times, 12 February, http://www.nytimes. com/ 2006/02/12/books/review/12mishra.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (accessed 5 March ...
A Fluid Sense of Self: The Politics of Transnational Identity

A Fluid Sense of Self: The Politics of Transnational Identity

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... of origins into endless melancholia.3 Mishra's attempt to investi- 3 See Mishra's The Literature of the Indian Diaspora, especially its introduction and third chapter. gate the notion of writing diaspora in analogy with writing Delphine Munos 151.
The Rough Guide to Brussels

The Rough Guide to Brussels

Martin Dunford

Production: Vicky Baldwin Cartography: London Maxine Repath, Ed Wright, Katie Lloyd-Jones; Delhi Jai Prakash Mishra, Rajesh Chhibber, Rajesh Mishra, Animesh Pathak, Jasbir Sandhu, Karobi Gogoi, Alakananda Bhattacharya, ...
Me and Medicine

Me and Medicine

Dr Krishna Mohan Mishra

Dr Krishna Mohan Mishra. Ratan Mala Gupta, Reader in Pathology came to lecture on a topic I cannot remember. She suddenly asked if someone could speak on the topic before her talk and no one volunteered. Then she asked me if I would.
Indian Numismatic Chronicle

Indian Numismatic Chronicle

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R. K. Ghaudhary Dr. B. B. Mishra Dr. K. N. Das Shri Bireshwar Prasad Singh Dr. Hasan Nishat Ansari Dr. Lekhnath Mishra Shri L. A. Narain Shri Chitta Ranjan Prasad Sinha Shri Jai Narain Thakur Editorial Advisory Board : Dr. P. N. Ojha Dr.
The Journal of the Bihar Research Society

The Journal of the Bihar Research Society

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R. K. Choudhary Dr. B. B. Mishra Dr. K. N. Das Shri Bireshwar Prasad Singh Dr. Hasan Nishat Ansari Dr. Lekhnath Mishra Shri L. A. Narain « □ Shri Chitta " Ranjan Prasad Sinha Shri Jai Narain Thakur Editorial Advisory Board : □ , k\ i ...
Applied Conic Finance

Applied Conic Finance

Dilip Madan

We would like to thank explicitly Peter Carr, José Manuel Corcuera, Alexander Cherny, Samuel Cohen, Jan De Spiegeleer, Ernst Eberlein, Robert Elliott, Monika Forys, Florence Guillaume, Philip Heckman, Ali Hirsa, Pankaj Khandelwal, Ajay ...
Come On! Get Set Go

Come On! Get Set Go

Swati - Shailesh Lodha

Shail-Sunil Jain (Indore), Manisha-Saurabh Mishra (Mumbai), and Anju-Deepak Surana (Washington) are a wonderful family. Though we have dedicated the book to our parents, we want to thank them once again for making us what we are.
System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design

System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design

Sanjeeb Mishra

The book offers a common context to help understand the variety of available interfaces and make sense of technology from different vendors aligned with multiple standards.
Lichens Flora of Kumaun Himalaya

Lichens Flora of Kumaun Himalaya

Gaurav Kumar Mishra

This book would be useful to a wide range of taxonomist, environmentalist, ecologists, biologist, conservationists, archeologists, policy makers, research scholars and foresters, silviculturist and land managers in development of plans and ...
RF and Microwave Passive and Active Technologies

RF and Microwave Passive and Active Technologies

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A. Corrion, C. Poblenz, P. Waltereit, T. Palacios, S. Rajan, U.K. Mishra, and J.S. Speck, “Review of Recent Developments ... D.C. Dumka, C. Lee, H.Q. Tserng, P. Saunier, and M. Kumar, “AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on Si Substrates with 7W/mm Output ...
Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design, ...

Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design, ...

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... Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nikil Dutt, Rainer Leupers, and Prabhat Mishra Models and Tools for Complex Embedded Software and Systems ............................ ...........................................................................141 Using Performance Metrics to Select ...
Rise of William Blake

Rise of William Blake

Shivashankar Mishra

... An Essay in Synthesis — C. Narayana Menon, Rs. 125 • Anthology of Indo- Anglian Poetry — (Ed.) Ashley E. Myles, Rs. 85 • P. B. Shelley's Philosophy of Love— Sarita Singh, Rs. 150 • Eugene O'Neil & His Visionary Quest— R. R. Khare, Rs.

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