Table of contents:

Introduction: writing the history of contemporary Bengal
Capital, labour and politics
Decade of strike by capital
A dying metropolis
Does the left front favour the urban elite?
Environment and employment : will the trade unions and greens join hands?
The tannery workers of Tangra
Lessons of Ayodhya : has the left lost its vision?
The new right and the new left
Party, mass organizations, and mass movements
More on party and mass organization
Votes and populism
New issues, new perspectives
Who is afraid of the migrants in Bengal?
A library and an institution
Hunger and the politics of life
Rajarhat : an urban dystopia
Dialogue and growth
All die, but all do not die equally
Chronicles of the ranks
The fast emerging power vacuum
Civil society and the politics of a society
Is Bengal's restless spirit in decline?
Contentious politics
Claim making in the age of bio-politics
That was revolt, this is civil war
Elections in the time of a civil war
Populism and peace
Different ways of truth telling
The idea of a front
Elections and expanding our representative system
Spring time in Bengal
Their civil society, our civil society
Stocktaking midway through the war
Messy change
Transitional challenges
Governing the multitude/i
Governing the multitude
How to prevent a telengana type situation in West Bengal
The challenge of building a non-corporate path of development
A suggestion on Bengal's economic woes
A square leading to many unknown destinations
Early but inevitable errors in judgement
A violent history of peace
Political change is never for utopia
Knight riders in Kolkata
Perennial themes
Eternal Bengal
"It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007
Postscript
The epoch of passive revolution