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Pankaj Mishra moves swiftly across diverse political & cultural landscapes to capture world history

Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra
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Age of Anger

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
AGE OF ANGER   
A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT
Author: Pankaj Mishra  
Publisher: Juggernaut
Pages: 432
Price: Rs 699

Time was when Pankaj Mishra ate butter chicken in Ludhiana. He has moved from the local to the global. His more recent books attempt to capture swathes of world history. These attempts, though laudable, are inevitably problematic. How does one anchor the global — trends in world history — with the local — the events and occurrences that are so integral a part of the historian’s craft? The lure to label many decades of history under the rubric of “Age of such and such’’

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