Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond & An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. Dr. Nader Hashemi speaks with Mr. Mishra on topics spanning western-style nationalism, Barack Obama, the Indian patriachy, and a new political model for asia and the world. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012.
