Pankaj Mishra Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: b. 1969
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.
topic: Powerful, Book, Writing, Russian Literature, Upper Middle Class
