Ajay S. Kumar

Ajay S. Kumar was born in Nigeria to Indian parents. He was raised in India. The upheavals in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union towards the end of the millennium had a great impact on the Third World in general and India, in particular. The gospel of Neoliberalism found many a devotee in his country, the author himself being one. Confessions of a One-Time Crony Capitalist, written against the backdrop of the ‘long march’ of NATO to the east, is his response to the machinations of capital. The author stresses the need to reinsti- tute the social contract between the government and the people it professes to represent. He makes a case for social economy so that the citizen is the sovereign of his circumstance.