Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Unlike His Compatriots - Many Of Whom Were Still, In Their Mid-twenties, Adolescent Posturers, Doomed To Futility - He Had An Engaging Earnestness About Him. Unlike Them, He Realized His Incompleteness As A Person And Strove To Overcome That.
One Of The Ways In Which He Did That Was By Reading. He Didn't Read Much, Or Too Widely, But Attentively, Looking For Instruction, Hints For Self-improvement, And He Read Serious Books.
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