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Danh ngôn của Pankaj Mishra (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.