Adelaide Writers’ Week – Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra sees the polarised response to Gaza as a clash between the West’s view of the Holocaust as a unique moral reference point and the rest of the world’s traumatic experience of colonialism. He explains his views to Michelle de Kretser.

Pankaj Mishra writes literary and political essays for The New York Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books and Bloomberg View, among other American, British and Indian publications. His first book was Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (1995), a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the new context of globalization. His later works have included the novel The Romantics (2000) and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004), which mixes memoir, history and philosophy.

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Warrane/Sydney on unceded Gadigal land. An honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney, she has won several awards for her fiction. Theory and Practice is her seventh novel.

FIND OUT MORE HERE: The World After Gaza: A History – Adelaide Festival