Ashok mitra (112 risultati)

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Calcutta Diary. Book.

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Condizione: New. pp. ix + 268.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xvi, 326 pages, portrait frontispiece a VG hbk, in a VG- dw (minor repairs) [0195605225].

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. The Hoodlum Years refer to the years of terror and agony that India passed through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency. At the time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the Economic and Political Weekly that tellingly and powerfully portrayed the horror of those years. This volume contains a selection of these essays, written during 1972 75 and between January and April 1977. The claustrophobic season of 1972 77, the author feels, ought to be remembered every now and then; there is otherwise a danger of our judgement being distorted by the familiar problem of forgetting. (jacket).…

Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents I 1. To be as free as the Caribbeans 8 14 January 2000. 2. Books the great alibi 2 March 2002. 3. Re writing history 25 May 2002. 4. Enrich thyselves 14 September 2002. 5. The miracle maker 18 January 2003. 6. Facets of civilization 12 April 2003. 7. The colonial bug for ever 13 September 2003. 8. The conundrum of Nepal 8 November 2003. II 9. Staying away from the nitty gritty 22 January 2000. 10. An imperial NGO 5 11 February 2000. 11. Re dreaming futile dreams 29 April 2000. 12. Calculations calculations 13 19 May 2000. 13. The left behind parents 26 August 2 September 2000. 14. Cricket the spitting image 16 September 2000. 15. The mourning reformers 4 10 November 2000. 16. Sovereignty and the WTO 16 December 2000. 17. The raison d'etre 30 December 2000. 18. Trade and hypocrisy 12 May 2001. 19. Dump food in the sea 23 June 2001. 20. What the love lorns talk these days 4 August 2001. 21. The level of awareness 16 February 2002. 22. The hand of the super bosses 16 March 2002. 23. A layman asks 22 June 2002. 24. The political transiting 12 October 2002. 25. The hokum of economics 2 9 November 2002. 26. No right to live 23 November 2002. 27. Aha securitization 4 January 2003. 28. Cross subsidies out out 15 February 2003. 29. The great Harlotland 5 July 2003. 30. The excuse mongers 2 August 2003. 31. Once more the third market 27 December 2003. III 32. A single category 20 26 November 1999. 33. Their own agenda 25 31 March 2000. 34. Hindu Kingdom gone away 13 January 2001. 35. A dress rehearsal 26 May 2001. 36. Into an impossible corner 5 January 2002. 37. The boss does the choosing 20 July 2002. 38. The greater fundamentalist 1 February 2003. 39. The new lexicographers 7 June 2003. IV 40. A friend remembers 4 10 March 2000. 41. A homage to Sweezy 22 28 July 2000. 42. A forgotten visionary 30 September 2000. 43. One who tried to de class himself 10 March 2001. 44. The forgotten don 28 April 2001. 45. In defence of Bihar 21 July 2001. 46. Death of a gentleman 1 September 2001. 47. Suicide bombs early Indian edition 13 October 2001. 48. Sarvajaya is dead 8 December 2001. 49. The rebel with too many causes 26 October 2002. 50. The survival kit 26 April 2003. 51. Somebodies and nobodies 6 December 2003. V 52. They flock together 18 September 1999. 53. Stability Forget about it 16 23 October 1999. 54. The taciturn functionary 27 May 2 June 2000. 55. Uncles of brilliant nephews 24 30 June 2000. 56. The notion of inalienability 19 25 August 2000. 57. The old soldier retires 18 24 November 2000. 58. Calamities and classes 24 February 2001. 59. Crooks opera 14 20 April 2001. 60. A decimating thought 18 August 2001. 61. The new activists 29 September 2001. 62. The revolutionary departure 24 November 2001. 63. Dance of the marionettes 2 February 2002. 64. A disunited nation 13 April 2002. 65. We hate therefore we are 8 June 2002. 66. A paradigm 6 July 2002. 67. ISI in every bush 7 December 2002. 68. Crime and punishment 21 December 2002. 69. Borderline cases 1 March 2003. 70. The police uber alles 21 June 2003. 71. The carpetbaggers are a coming 30 August 2003. 72. Remember Zohra and Uzra 27 September 2003. A 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. Ranging 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. Many of the earlier essays had been anthologized the present collecti.…

Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. 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. 256 pp. …

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Condizione: New. pp. 240.

1983. Condizione: Good. Missing. Stated second printing, 1983. Good ex-library hardcover, with associated spine label, markings to endpapers, and stamps. Missing dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; some scuffing, staining to blue cloth boards; ends of sunned spine bumped; titling slightly rubbed, but overall remains clear and legible. Save ex-library, free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Condizione: New. pp. ix + 268.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. ix + 268 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:8189487051,268pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9789355723888.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9788189487058,278pp.

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Pages are loose. (Literature, biography, HIstory, Agriculture, Economics ).

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HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. pull-outs throughout book included No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condizione: New. Brand New. Soft Cover International Edition. Different ISBN and Cover Image. Priced lower than the standard editions which is usually intended to make them more affordable for students abroad. The core content of the book is generally the same as the standard edition. The country selling restrictions may be printed on the book but is no problem for the self-use. This Item maybe shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.…

Condizione: New. pp. 473, Frontispiece Illus.

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