13 July 2023. Indian essayist, literary critic and writer Pankaj Mishra will deliver the opening speech at this year’s M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, which takes place on 14 September at the Orangerie Sanssouci in Potsdam.
The author, who was born in North India in 1969, became internationally known in 1995 with his non-fiction book “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India“. In this travelogue, he describes the social and cultural changes in India in the context of ongoing globalisation. His latest book, “Bland Fanatics”, is a collection of essays in which he questions the myth of the so-called “superiority of the West” and describes the pitfalls or dangers of this myth.
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