Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and
A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels. He is a Bloomberg opinion columnist, and prolific contributor to other periodicals such as
The Guardian,
The New York Times,
The New Yorker and the
New York Review of Books. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014.