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May 16, 2018
How Japanese trains went from dirty toilets and massive losses to the world’s best
In one word: PRIVATISATION How do you privatise trains? That sounds implausible. Well, Japan did it in 1987. in 1987, the government privatized the Japanese National Railways (JNR), which operated every type of transit except trams and inner-city metros. JR East, JR Central, and JR West, the three spin-offs operating around Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, […]
Why Indians will continue to suffer acutely: the total confusion in their minds
Read comments on this post on FB. ==== Dath Rebasish Literally what communism/socialism leads in the end. Sagar Aggarwal Dude, its corruption that leads in the end. Read the whole article Dath Rebasish Sagar Aggarwal which are an inevitable consequence of giving the government excessive power instead of people themselves. Honest wealth creators are destroyed while the government sleeps […]
May 13, 2018
Who is Arun Maira? What are his policy leanings?
Someone asked the above question. I dug around a bit and have come to the following findings: He is not a systems thinker. He had extensive business experience, including in the Tatas, then chaired BCG India. These are impressive achievements. BCG is good and one would presume they understand how systems of accountability are designed […]
May 12, 2018
Robert Louis Wilken: Lecture 3 – Roger Williams, John Locke and Thomas Jefferson
Came across this. Particularly useful from 18 minutes 50 seconds. Wilken is an academic at the University of Virginia. He has written a book, The Christian roots of religious freedom. I’ve ordered it and should get it from UK within a week. I’ve taken the Youtube automatic transcript and am posting it below. It is full […]
May 10, 2018
Liberalism is the ONLY revolutionary ideology. All others are reactionary.
The new header for my blog: We have been fooled by the socialists who have claimed to occupy the “revolutionary” territory. They were reactionaries who wanted access to state power and control over the people in a different form. There is nothing to distinguish feudalism from socialism/fascism in all its forms. Liberalism is the truly […]
May 9, 2018
Liberalism in India before independence – an article by Ray Smith
This is worth reviewing. I’ve OCRd and prepared a Word version. HTML below. Will annotate when time permits. Highlight – that the Indian liberals played a crucial role in getting India its post-independence Constitution. India may have forgotten these quiet heroes but every day, Indians are saved from the ravages of extremism (e.g. Hindu raj, […]
India was blessed to have Gandhi. Without him India would have seen a total blood bath like China, Nazi Germany or USSR
After reading Bose in some more detail, I’ve become extremely relieved that he was removed from his two year Presidentship of Congress by Gandhi in 1939 – the year that Hitler came to power. I now begin to see the INVALUABLE ROLE Gandhi played in India’s independence movement. It did not get India independence (that […]
Gandhi’s Eleven Point ideology
Bose cites Gandhi’s Eleven points in the last chapter of his book. He then labels Gandhi a reformer, not a revolutionary, thereby distancing himself from this lukewarm, which he calls “capitalist”, vision of Gandhi. What are these points? Below (detailed in the same book, by Bose): ====EXTRACT FROM BOSE=== On January 30th he issued a […]
Subhash Chandra Bose’s dictatorial (fascist) + ultra-socialist (communist) vision for independent India
I’ve discussed Bose’s ideas in the past, here. This is Chapter 18 – in full – from Volume 1 of his book: The Indian Struggle. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE As the life of the present British House of Commons will come to an end in 1936, the Constitution Bill for India will […]
Subhash Chandra Bose’s view about the Indian Liberals
Bose had very strong views in favour of communism and fascism. The liberals did not impress him but he noted their activities for the record in his book. From Bose’s Indian Struggle, Vol. 1 “The present leaders of the Liberal Party are Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru of Allahabad, Sir Chimanlal Setalvad and Sir Pheroze Sethna […]
