On my radar: Pankaj Mishra’s cultural highlights

The writer on Riz Ahmed in The Night Of, his favourite cafe, the insights of William Empson and extraordinary Indian bharatanatyam dancingPankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist. Born in 1969, he grew up in small towns in northern India and studied in Allahabad and New Delhi. On graduating, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where, he has said there was “nothing to do except read and write”. He contributes essays and reviews regularly to the New York Review of Books, th