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 Wester

A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and politica

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction.

The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last h

After the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan the important but overlooked former Soviet states of Central Asia became for a brief time key players in