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 prolific contributor to periodicals such as
The Guardian,
The New York Times,
The New Yorker and the
New York Review of Books and was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. 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 and the Weston International Award in 2024.
