Pankaj Mishra on the Crisis of Liberalism in India and the World | Grand Tamasha
Pankaj Mishra is the acclaimed author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a frequent contributor to some of the world’s top publications the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, the New Yorker, and Bloomberg.
His new book, Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire, focuses on the decay of Western liberalism but somehow manages to cover an array of topics from Salman Rushie to The Economist to British colonialism and Indian politics.
Pankaj and Milan discuss the state of Indian democracy, the (absent) standard-bearers of Indian liberalism, and how the Cold War-era conception of democracy helped India geopolitically. They also discuss what the British Raj can tell us about Brexit and the future of big government, for good and for ill.
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"Ideological deception" That's not the only thing he saw in Kashmir of the early 90s. He fails to add the reason for the military presence. He doesn't want to talk about the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits by the terrorists. His white washing won him access to Granta. Pakistan gave him exclusive access to its western region for a report. His "liberal" creds - essentially a copying of the Western intellectual elitism which he now criticizes - grew. Barbara Epstein of the NYRB recruited him with access to fellowships in NYC. In other words, he is what he is because he is willing to pen words which his paymasters want to hear and use to spread more "Western intellectual ( effete, hypocritical) elitism".