Welcome. Thank you very much for coming. My name is paul elie. Im an author and senior fellow at the Berkeley Center here at georgetown and im very pleased to welcome today Pankaj Mishra for a conversation about his new book age of anger. A few words about pankaj. He is one of the most accomplished, acclaimed and versatile writers working in english today. Born in north was india in 1969, he writes and reports from london, india and points worldwide. A contributor to the new york review books, the new yorker, New York Times magazine, bloomberg view, the leonard review books, Financial Times and plenty of other publications. His books include the novel the romantics, an end to suffering, a novel ive had to teach in my course at georgetown. Quotations to the west, from the ruins of empire in 2012, that book led the economist to characterize him as a leading indian public intellectual with a surprising perspective as the air. The turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate called the book the Ama
The realized promise of most people on that country. So in one instance you have fear of downward mobility and in other places where people have been taken out, extreme poverty and now find themselves, they find their heads locked. That is the case of loss of mobility and at some point, the accumulated frustrations become politically toxic and that is what has happened i think in the last few years, that weve been promised a lot. Weve been promised a lot by the ideologies broadcast from all Different Directions and we find that most of these promises are unfulfilled. Theyre certainly not being fulfilled and its quite likely they are unfulfilled. For one, we have environmentalconstraints. Weve already seen the Political Risk of unfulfilled promises and now we have the simple fact that the planet doesnt have enough resources to bring billions of indians and chinese to the same level that people in europe and america have been on for a few decades. And this anger is more general then assi
Farm machinery, utes and diesel theft increasing in Childers, with drones being used by thieves to target farms. Calls for greater police presence and harsher penalties.