*That would be interesting.
http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/alternative-futures-india-unshackled-review-another-way-forward/article22783954.ece
A utopian idea of what India should be like
Ashish Kothari and K.J. Joy have brought together 50 thinkers to assemble this unique 600-page tome containing 32 reflective essays on ideas to shape India’s future. The book’s title — Alternative Futures: India Unshackled — itself reveals the intentions of its editors, who have both been part of environmental activism and democratic struggles across the country for several decades. Encompassing ecological, political, economic and socio-cultural themes, the book explores solutions to current day developmental challenges and defies popular ideologies of economic growth and modernisation as the only available model for building our future.
Elaborating on what inspired the editors to conceive the idea of this book, Kothari writes that while working on the politics based on alternatives as an activist with the Mukti Sangharsh Movement in Maharashtra, he realised how one not only had to resist destructive development projects on the ground but also define what they were seeking in its place. This need to present a positive agenda around which demands for future projects could be based is what drives this book forward essentially....
