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Pankaj Mishra FRSL (born 9 February 1969) 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.
The Romantics (1999) is the debut novel of Pankaj Mishra, the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004) and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006).
Allan Massie of The Scotsman wrote, "This is a wonderfully rich and enjoyable novel". [4] Saloni Sharma of Scroll.in wrote, "Mishra's title remains ambiguous. Whether it is a cautionary tale or a mantra, a literal solution or a metaphorical disguising of the self, is up to the reader to decipher."
Critics praised the book's erudition, noting Mishra's ambitious and timely argument relying on thinkers both well-known and obscure. Slate's Laura Miller stated, "The middle of the book could be heavy sledding for anyone lacking a passing familiarity with figures such as Fichte, Bakunin, and Kropotkin, but the chapters on how these European writers affected subsequent generations of leaders in ...
Bharat Ek Khoj (lit. ' India: An Exploration ') is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru [3] that covers a 5,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947.
A follow-up series to Office Office, Naya Office Office launched on Star One in 2007. [3] A comic book series based on the show was also launched. [4] The books were published by Prakash Books.
Dasharatha (Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST: Daśaratha; born Nemi) was the king of Kosala, with its capital at Ayodhya, in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Dasharatha married Kausalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi. He was the father of Rama, the protagonist of the epic, Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna. Dasharatha also finds mention in the Vishnu Purana. [1]
Ramayan is a Hindi TV series that was aired on Zee TV in 2001. [1] It is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name , and is primarily based on Valmiki 's Ramayana , Tulsidas Ramcharitramanas , Kalidasa's Raghuvaṃśa and Kambar's Kambh Ramayana .