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Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Laura Restrepo

The world after Gaza

Cartagena 2026, 

When writers from the global South take their pens to the topic of the West, it rarely comes out looking good. On this topic, the essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra (India) is one of the most lucid and incisive voices of our times. In Age of Anger he traces the links between contemporary violence and the rise of individualism and capitalism; while in The World After Gaza, he criticises the global racial order imposed by the West. He will talk to Laura Restrepo.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Laura Restrepo