{"product_id":"from-the-ramparts","title":"From the Ramparts","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ashok Mitra\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Tulika\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 268\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8189487051\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection from Ashok Mitra’s famed Calcutta Diary in the Economic and Political Weekly, these short essays chronicle the troubled times on the subcontinent from 1999 to 2003. Ashok Mitra’s column in the Weekly had run from the early 1970s, with important gaps during which Mitra held political office, and each single piece had taken up one or more of the burning issues of the day and subjected them to a remorseless and incisive dissection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from politics to sports, commoners to corporations, poetry to processions, global to local-these taut, tense, disturbing meditations bring out what has always been the uppermost concern in Mitra’s chequered career: an overriding sympathy for the underdog and a corrosive contempt for the forces poisoning the existence of man. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the earlier essays had been anthologized; the present collection brings the latest-and some of the best-pieces together in a series of linked reflections on out life and subcontinent-and India of course gets the most attention-but Mitra makes it clear in nearly all the pieces that contemporary reality weaves intriguing narrative patters involving lives all over the globe, and that encountering the imperialism of the day should be the first concern of all who have claims to be citizens of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE\u003cbr\u003eTo be as free as the Caribbeans\u003cbr\u003eBooks: the great alibi\u003cbr\u003eRe-writing history\u003cbr\u003eThe miracle-maker\u003cbr\u003eFacets of civilization\u003cbr\u003eThe colonial bug for ever\u003cbr\u003eThe conundrum of Nepal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWO\u003cbr\u003eTwo staying away from the nitty-gritty \u003cbr\u003eAn imperial NGO?\u003cbr\u003eRe-dreaming futile drams\u003cbr\u003eCalculations, calculations\u003cbr\u003eThe left-behind parents\u003cbr\u003eCricket, the spitting image\u003cbr\u003eThe mounting reformers\u003cbr\u003eSovereigny and the WTO\u003cbr\u003eThe raison d’etre\u003cbr\u003eTrade and hyposcrisy\u003cbr\u003eDump food in the sea\u003cbr\u003eWhat the love-Iorns talk these days \u003cbr\u003eThe level of awareness \u003cbr\u003eThe hand of the super-bosses\u003cbr\u003eA layman asks\u003cbr\u003eThe political transiting\u003cbr\u003eThe hokum of economics\u003cbr\u003eNo right to live\u003cbr\u003eAha, securitization\u003cbr\u003eCross-subsidies, out, out\u003cbr\u003eThe great harlotland\u003cbr\u003eThe excuse-mongers\u003cbr\u003eOnce more, the third market\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHREE\u003cbr\u003eA single category\u003cbr\u003eTheir own agenda\u003cbr\u003eHindu kingdom gone away\u003cbr\u003eA dress rehearsal?\u003cbr\u003eInto an impossible corner\u003cbr\u003eThe boss does the choosing\u003cbr\u003eThe greater fundamentalist\u003cbr\u003eThe new lexicographers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOUR\u003cbr\u003eA friend remembers\u003cbr\u003eA homage to Sweezy\u003cbr\u003eA  forgotten visionary\u003cbr\u003eOne who tried to de-class himself\u003cbr\u003eThe forgotten don\u003cbr\u003eIn defence of Bihar\u003cbr\u003eDeath of a gentleman\u003cbr\u003eSuicide bombs, early India edition\u003cbr\u003eSarvajaya is dead \u003cbr\u003eThe rebel with too many causes \u003cbr\u003eThe survival kit \u003cbr\u003eSomebodies and nobodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIVE\u003cbr\u003eThey flock together\u003cbr\u003eStability? Forget about it\u003cbr\u003eThe taciturn functionary\u003cbr\u003eUnless of brilliant nephews\u003cbr\u003eThe notion of inalienability\u003cbr\u003eThe old solider retires\u003cbr\u003eCalamities and classes\u003cbr\u003eCrookes’ opera \u003cbr\u003eA decimating thought\u003cbr\u003eThe new activists\u003cbr\u003eThe revolutionary departure \u003cbr\u003eDance of the Marionettes\u003cbr\u003eA disunited nation\u003cbr\u003eWe hate, therefore we are \u003cbr\u003eA paradigm?\u003cbr\u003eISI in every bush \u003cbr\u003eCrime and punishment\u003cbr\u003eBorderline cases\u003cbr\u003eThe police uber alles\u003cbr\u003eThe carpetbaggers are a-coming\u003cbr\u003eRemember Zohra and Uzra?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ashok Mitra \/ Tulika \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153599492464,"sku":"18156","price":38.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/18156.jpg?v=1793911448","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/from-the-ramparts","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}