Not the least of the ironies that lie behind this deeply serious and thoughtful book is that perhaps the greatest philosopher the Indian subcontinent has ever produced is increasingly fashionable in India because he is regarded as an icon of the West.
– Pico Iyer, “The Buddha’s cure: A Review of An End To Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra” in The New York Review of Books, March 10, 2005, p. 4