I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
Pankaj MishraI feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.
Pankaj MishraTo think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.
Pankaj MishraThere is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but Iām neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. Iām uneasily somewhere in the middle.
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