by Pankaj Mishra · Ediciones Barataria · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492979219
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«Butter chicken en Ludhiana» is Pankaj Mishra's travel book about provincial India, published by Ediciones Barataria in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Pankaj Mishra travels through small Indian towns that do not appear in tourist guides and portrays a country in transformation, where the decay of traditional ways of life coexists with the ostentation of the newly rich. Notable episodes include an encounter in Kerala with a medical representative and the routine of the Gaddi nomads, who still move their herds between valleys and mountains.
The book belongs to the Bárbaros collection from Ediciones Barataria, where it is number 75. Pankaj Mishra was born in 1969 and is also the author of the novel «Los románticos».
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary Indian society, travel literature, and critical essays on modernization and its contradictions.
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include The World After Gaza, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels. He is a prolific contributor to periodicals such as The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024.
