Pankaj Mishra, essayist: Trump and Putin are ‘two gangsters coming to a deal among themselves’
Following the publication of his new essay ‘The World After Gaza’, the Indian intellectual notes that the ‘ethnic cleansing’ that Israel is carrying out is the harbinger of a new culture of cruelty and impunity taking hold in the world. In his view, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have demonstrated the moral, political and military weakness of the West
Pankaj Mishra, 56, belongs to that category of intellectuals like Edward Said or Arundhati Roy who adeptly use the tools of Western culture to dismantle prejudices and historical conventions. To show that other parts of the world, much larger and more populated than Europe or the United States, have a completely different perspective and vision of events.
