However Pankaj Mishra notes that these births are regarded as an "ominous event" in the epic.
In 2011, when Mishra criticised Niall Ferguson's book Civilisation: The West and the Rest in the London Review of Books, Ferguson threatened to sue for libel.
Sudhir Mishra | Pankaj Udhas | Sanjay Mishra | Rajan and Sajan Mishra | Piyush Mishra | Pankaj Kapur | Veer Bhadra Mishra | Sabyasachi Mishra | Pankaj Sharma | Pankaj Mishra | Pankaj Charan Das | Nitish Mishra | Chaturanan Mishra | Smriti Mishra | Sanjai Mishra | Rajiv Mishra | Pankaj Patel | Pankaj Parashar | Kailash Chandra Mishra | Jagannath Mishra | Dinesh Kumar Mishra | Bikas Mishra | Bikas mishra |
Others from the Indian Subcontinent who came for the 2012 Book Fair:- Anupam Kher, Arundhati Roy, Benyamin, Deepti Naval, H. M. Naqvi, Namita Gokhale, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Zachariah, Samrat Upadhyay, Sethu, Shehan Karunatilaka, Tahmima Anam, Vidya Shah and William Dalrymple.