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Joyson Fernandes has posted a playlist of my podcasts on Youtube

Thanks to Joyson for thinking of this option – to convert my podcasts into Youtube videos.  Hopefully these ideas about liberty and good governance will get some more coverage. These are available here. Please share if you support liberty and good governance.    

Reputation is not private property – therefore defamation law has no legs to stand on

I used to accept the received wisdom that reputation is private property. But now that I’ve started analysing it in some detail – given the massive harmful effects it has on the economy – it has become increasingly clear to me that it is not private property. Widely held view that reputation is private property It […]

My objection to VIOLENCE against children on any pretext

My FB comment here: Much as I agree with Frank Furedi on most things, on this issue everyone must go back to the basic principle of non-violence towards others. There is no freedom – no one has it – to cut and slice other people. Or to marry children. Therefore the barbaric Hindu practice of […]

Modi’s vendetta against Phillip Adams. Australia should severe ties with Modi.

A few days ago I noted my views against India’s denial of visa to Phillip Adams. Adams is one of the very best writers in Australia. He was also co-host at Gurcharan Das’s talk in Melbourne in the Telstra Theatre in 2007 that I had at least partly helped organise. Phillip Adams has now written […]

The severely misguided business leaders who insisted that Modi’s government is less corrupt than the UPA

I sent this email out a couple of days ago. Also posting it on this blog: ==== At the Horasis conference last year I said in the main forum that corruption starts in India at the very top. The business leader chairing the session simply glossed over my comment (apart from a foolish laugh at […]

My fourth centerpiece in Times of India over the last year: Five reforms PM can consider

My centerpiece article in Times of India today, the fourth in less than a year. Clearly India’s oldest and most significant English newspaper has started recognsing the worth of the message the Swarna Bharat Party brings. Now it is only a question of when Indians as a whole will reject Modi’s BJP and Congress (and […]

A public warning against Anand Prasad’s “Liberal Party of India”

I have no time or inclination to discuss the many thousands of individuals who’ve connected with my work over the past 20 years and then turned out to be far less than what they said they were. But I make do an exception in a few cases, to illuminate the public record. This is one […]

Inviting all those who know Hinduism. Please examine Sanjay Sonawani’s draft book which demolishes the caste system

Sanjay Sonawani has published three editions of a book in Marathi on caste. He took up a project to translate it into English and sent me a draft. I had already read his book on Vedas (Origins of the Vedic Religion: And Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation), so it was somewhat easier for me to understand his English translation. […]

To restate, Brahmins are NOT Hindu (being foreign Vedics). So Hinduism has no “caste” problem.

This is a restatement of Sanjay’s extraordinarily powerful research.

There is no Brahmin in Hinduism. There is therefore NO “caste problem” in Hinduism

I think the most important point that I’ve gathered from Sanjay Sonawani’s analysis of India’s religions and castes is that the idea of Brahmin is NOT Hindu. Whether hereditary or otherwise, the idea is PURELY Vedic. This is a quite a big deal. By separating out the two religions – Vedic and Hindu, India’s “caste […]