12 Facts About Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra was born on 9 February 1969 and is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist.

Pankaj Mishra 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.

Pankaj Mishra's writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson.

Pankaj Mishra's father was AK Mishra a PWI in Indian railway and trade unionist after his prosperous Brahmin family lost some land by post-independence land redistribution.

In 1992, Pankaj Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, and the newspaper The Pioneer.

Pankaj Mishra's first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization.

Pankaj Mishra has written literary and political essays for The New York Times, where he was a Bookends columnist, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications.

Pankaj Mishra is a columnist for Bloomberg View and The New York Times Book Review.

Pankaj Mishra's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, Common Knowledge, the Financial Times, Granta, The Independent, The New Republic, the New Statesman, The Wall Street Journal, n+1, The Nation, Outlook, Poetry, Time magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Travel + Leisure, and The Washington Post.

Pankaj Mishra was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008.

Pankaj Mishra married Mary Mount, a London book editor, in 2005.

Pankaj Mishra is daughter of the writer Sir Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, and a cousin of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron.