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Modi's grand plan behind rupee ban
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 01/12/2016
» Back in 2014, Narendra Modi's landslide victory was hailed by columnists in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, who predicted that he would prove to be India's Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, modernising India's economy with a revolutionary programme of deregulation and privatisation.
'Gangsta Islam' has very little to do with religion
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 21/04/2016
» 'Islam's borders are bloody," Samuel Huntington once wrote, "and so are its innards." Since the Sept 11 attacks, that conventional wisdom has fuelled a bizarre search for the Islamic roots of modern terrorism.
Trumpism meets defeat in London
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 10/05/2016
» Donald Trump became last week the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential elections. But those condemned to agonising suspense and anxiety until November should note that Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, also suffered a major defeat last week.