Posted on 19/02/05
The Buddha and the traveller
An End to Suffering:The Buddha in the WorldBy Pankaj MishraFarrar, Straus & Giroux,422 pages, $37.50Pankaj Mishra's well-received 2000 novel, The Romantics, tells of students in Benares, India, afflicted with uncertainties about life, society, revolution and love. From the evidence of his new book, The Buddha in the World, it was clearly autobiographical -- and now he is searching again, this time as a more mature man, though still at odds with almost all the worlds he lives in.
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