Table of Contents
My Seditious Heart: An Unfinished Diary of Nowadays 1
Map of India 36
Glossary 37
Part I
1 The End of Imagination 45
2 Democracy: Who Is She When She's at Home? 65
3 When the Saints Go Marching Out: The Strange Fate of Martin, Mohandas, and Mandela 81
4 In Memory of Shankar Guha Niyogi 87
5 How Deep Shall We Dig? 91
Part II
6 The Greater Common Good 107
7 Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin 151
8 The Ladies Have Feelings, So …: Shall We Leave It to the Experts? 177
9 On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent 195
10 Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance) 205
Part III
11 The Algebra of Infinite Justice 211
12 War Is Peace 221
13 War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs 233
14 Come September 237
15 An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire 253
16 The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky 263
17 Confronting Empire 277
18 Peace Is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News 283
19 Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) 295
20 Du Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving? 311
21 Public Power in the Age of Empire 319
Notes 343
Sources 383
Index 387