Video: In conversation with Indian author Pankaj Mishra

Indian author Pankaj Mishra, left, won a $150,000 Yale literary prize in March 2014.

Pankaj Mishra’s book From the Ruins of Empire has been hailed as a masterful look at the Asian experience of European empires, by a man called “the heir to Edward Said.” In this conversation with The National’s chief columnist Faisal Al Yafai, Mishra discusses the West’s wars in the region, past and present. Produced by Mariam Al Nuaimi