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Violent Socialism: Essay by Rajaji, January 1959

VIOLENT SOCIALISM IT is not only lathis and rifles that make violence. A show of rifles is as much violence as actual shooting. The violence of legislative compulsion on a submissive people is of the same quality as lathis and rifles, and the coercion exercised through it is even more effective and more lastingly harmful. […]

Freedom under socialism: 1958 essay by Rajagopalachari

FREEDOM UNDER SOCIALISM AT the Sastri Hall, at a recent meeting, Mr. Arabindo Basu, Professor of Indian Philosophy at the Durham University, gave a thought-provoking talk on socialism on the background of a recent visit to Israel. Mr. Basu’s point was that socialism—any form of it, anywhere—must end in complete regulation of life and the […]

THREE POLICE OFFICERS and ONE GANGSTER have by now testified/hinted clearly to Modi’s direction of Haren Pandya’s murder

It is time to take a stocktake of the Pandya issue on which I’ve put out the following posts in the past: 27th June 2016 – “The biggest political murder in the country”. The urgent need to reopen the murder case of Haren Pandya which took place under Modi’s nose. 13th July 2014: Sorry, Modi, you can’t […]

Copy of Rana Ayyub’s article in The Wire: It’s Time to Blow the Lid off Haren Pandya’s Murder

GIVEN THE CHRONIC DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE INTERNET OF VAST AMOUNTS OF EVIDENCE THAT’S BEEN PUT OUT AGAINST MODI OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS, I’M COPYING THIS ARTICLE FROM RANA AYYUB FOR MY FUTURE RECORD. [Screenshot] ===== Mumbai: A key witness in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case told a Special Court in Mumbai earlier this month that the contract […]

Extracts from The Economic Case for Private Residential Development by Fred E.Foldvary

Folvary had an excellent chapter in is an excellent article in Private Cities ed. Glasze, Weber and Frantz (2006) from which a few key points are worth noting: === The economic feasibility of private residential governance, empirically confirmed by the worldwide growth of private communities, turns the prevailing ‘market failure’ doctrine on its head. This […]

If you’re in Delhi on 10 December please attend the release of Sagarika Ghose’s book on Indian liberalism

Sharing for the Delhi liberals who may follow this blog. Although I’ve not yet read Sagarika’s book (which I’ll get to read when I reach Delhi in end-January), I think Sagarika has a broadly liberal inclinations including for economic liberty. I will comment further when I read the book and review it. In the meantime, […]

My next TOI blog post: Public sector banks as the conduit for large scale corruption

[Some of you might have noticed a post I put out a short while ago re: difficulties in searching my TOI posts on google. That difficulty remains and the precise cause is clear: the robots.txt file on TOI website – but it now seems that the restriction was applied around a couple of months back, […]

My next TOI blog: There is no role for government in owning and running schools

This was published yesterday, here.

The poor are not stupid. For-profit low cost private schools are simply better.

I’m studying some extracts from Tooley’s The Beautiful Tree once again. These findings deserve wider attention (Note that I’ve “jumbled” up some comments from various parts of the book to bring the entire story together) Children in Private Schools Outperform Those in Public School Poor parents are not “ignoramuses.” Parents knew they were onto something […]

My TOI blog post on Sabarimala – A serious case of judicial over-reach

Please click this. This is a particualrly important post under the current political circumstances. May be worth sharing. ADDENDUM How can temples be privatised? [See FB] There are many ways by which temples can be returned back to the community. Step 1: Any old coins, etc. can be auctioned and proceeds deposited into the Prime […]