'With its insightful analysis, a clear-eyed vision for change and a compelling call for action, this strong sharp book is for everyone who cares about India and our shared future.'
Amita Baviskar, Sociologist, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
‘Ecology, Economy addresses important and complex questions with a refreshing directness: For a start, what is poverty? Does industrialisation reduce it or massively increase it?…. [It] provides a valuable overview of some of the most pressing issues that confront India, and indeed the world, today. It is essential reading for all who seek to understand why so much of India’s population is up in arms against the policies that are being imposed upon the country by its elite.’
Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace (2000) and Sea of Poppies (2008),
from www.amitavghosh.com/blog
‘Ecology, Economy is an anguished appraisal of the battle between life and death being played out in remote corners of the world, not least in swathes of India. On one side is a culture of extraction and industrialization that is devastating the planet, and on the other side the life-affirming values of indigenous societies that have survived for thousands of years and could yet show us the way forward. … [E]ssential reading for all who care about life on earth, including our own. ‘
Madhusree Mukerjee, former physicist and author of Churchill’s Secret War (2010) and
The Land of Naked People (2003)
‘In a decadent era marked by a lethal cretinization of the intellect under the onslaught of a high-tech-mediated, money-driven celebrity culture, this volume is a breath of long-awaited fresh air.… It is a devastating demonstration—on grounds theoretical and empirical, no less than Dharma itself—that finance-led corporate-consumerist business-as-usual under the nose of a kleptocratic, sell-out State, has long ceased to be an option to plan for the future of humanity. The moral and political agency of traditional rural communities ultimately holds the key to everyone's survival.’
Aseem Shrivastava, ecological economist and author (with Ashish Kothari)
of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India (2012)