Author: Ashok MitraPublisher: Emancipation/LeftwordYear: 2007Language: EnglishPages: 256ISBN/UPC (if available): 8190344323
Description
The Protest Is Still On is a selection of articles from Ashok Mitra’s Column, ‘Cutting Corners’, which appeared in the Telegraph over a period of more than two decades.. When issues concerning the development of the Indian Economy in the context of globalization are generating such intense interest, we expect this collection will add a significant dimension to on-going discussion.
Contents
Poison as prescriptionIt always knows bestDeconstruct, then panicThe part is not the whole Authoritarian utopias Beyond the round tableStanding apartRight off the railsBattered by VATImpolite predictionsBountiful happinessCourting imbalanceSlave, scab, pipedreamThe moving fingerNo valued, just greedCellphones in lieu of rice Calamity imperialismMixed up valuesTrigger-happyMoney to burn?Reforms gone haywireTaking on nature The golden ageDear moneyThat sinking feelingFollow the market Tidings from CancunDog day afternoonThe great train robberyGames ministers playEnter the sheriffDaylight mayhemAfraid to be free invest in a dream Rupee on the runNowhere to go but downClosing the gate survival of the FreestPlay of passionsForget 1962Colonialism with a new faceCircular argument Rich man, poor manPaid the pipersUnrevealed textGreat levellerThe cheek of it Patent noster Politic politenessBuy for now joys of lesser fare Force within a farceIn the garden of GethsameneAll American banana splits Import of InfiationTiger and pussy catWorld’s only flower powerCapitulation and decapitationEfficiently chained slaves’Foreign fingers in our pieEncounters of the non-resident kind A million mutinies to comeThe illegal hand of US LawDo not ask for facts Already in the World Bank’s territory?Food or ballistic missiles?Fend for yourselvesAre we really on the same Boat, brother?To talk of sacrilegePlease pay for non-developmentThe other Americans
