Ashok Mitra, economist and political activist, has straddled several careers. He was Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and was on the faculty of the Economic Development Institute in Washington, DC. He was subsequently Chairman, Agricultural Prices Commission and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Still later, he was finance and planning minister in West Bengal and a member of the Rajya Sabha. He also happens to be an essayist in English as well as Bengali, and has received the Sahitya Akademi award for contributions to Bengali literature.
He contributed, off and on for more than three decades, to the widely-read ‘Calcutta Diary column in the Economic and Political kl4ekly, and continues to write a column, ‘Cutting Corners’, for The Telegraph, Calcutta, His Bengali memoirs has recently been made available in English translation A Pratder’s Tale — and has attracted some attention.
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