by Namit Arora A review of Pankaj Mishra’s "From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia". A few hundred years ago, a powerful cultural force arose in Western Europe that would later spread out and overwhelm much of... Continue reading

By Namit Arora In December 2005, I took a bus out of the coastal city of Vijayawada in South India. Heading west, I passed small towns and villages whose names—opaque to me because written only in Telugu—I kept guessing at... Continue reading

By Namit Arora An early goal of British imperialists in India was to create a class of local elites in their own image. They would be, wrote Macaulay, ‘interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of... Continue reading