The Protest is Still On
Contents: 1. Poison as prescription. 2. It always knows best. 3. Deconstruct, then panic. 4. The part is not the whole. 5. Authoritarian utopias. 6. Beyond the round table. 7. Standing apart. 8. Right off the rails. 9. Battered by VAT. 10. Impolite predictions. 11. Bountiful happiness. 12. Courting imbalance. 13. Slave, scab, pipedream. 14. The moving finger. 15. No values, just greed. 16. Cellphones in lieu of rice. 17. Calamity imperialism. 18. Mixed up values. 19. Trigger-happy. 20. Money to burn? 21. Reforms gone haywire. 22. Taking on nature. 23. The golden age. 24. Dear money. 25. That sinking feeling. 26. Follow the market. 27. Tidings from Cancun. 28. Dog day afternoon. 29. The great train robbery. 30. Games ministers play. 31. Enter the sheriff. 32. Daylight mayhem. 33. Afraid to be free. 34. Invest in a dream. 35. Rupee on the run. 36. Nowhere to go but down. 37. Closing the gate. 38. Survival of the freest. 39. Play of passions. 40. Forget 1962. 41. Colonialism with a new face. 42. Circular argument. 43. Rich man, poor man. 44. Paid the pipers. 45. Unrevealed text. 46. Great leveller. 47. The cheek of it. 48. Patent noster. 49. Politic politeness. 50. Buy for now. 51. Joys of lesser fare. 52. Force within a farce. 53. In the garden of gethsamene. 54. All American banana split. 55. Import of inflation. 56. Tiger and pussy cat. 57. World's only flower power. 58. Capitulation and decapitation. 59. Efficiently chained slaves. 60. Foreign fingers in our pie. 61. Encounters of the non-resident kind. 62. A million mutinies to come. 63. The illegal hand of US law. 64. Do not ask for facts. 65. Already in the world bank's territory? 66. Food or ballistic missiles? 67. Fend for yourselves. 68. Are we really on the same boat, brother? 69. To talk of sacrilege. 70. Please pay for non-development. 71. The other Americans.
"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 between 1982 and 2006.
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 the on-going discussion." (jacket)
