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Recalibrating India’s liberal political strategy – my podcast on Whooshkaa today

I have been working on the liberal political project for India for almost 20 years now. During this period, some things have succeeded and some things have not. In this talk I discuss the learnings from this experience and propose a strategy that is more likely to succeed, going forward. I suggest that all FTI and SBP […]

Instead of giving free water to the rich, how about eliminating poverty?

I was starting to write a new article and found this old one. I think I had sent it to some newspaper and upon not receiving any response, forgot about it. However, the content is relevant and should at least be on this blog. In time, it could be suitably amended for a further article. […]

I will not associate with Shashi Tharoor until he renounces Congress and apologises to the country

One of my friends met Shash Tharoor recently and discussed my work. Apparently Tharoor has read my work and holds it in some esteem but thinks that I am “a right man in the wrong place”. I don’t know what he means by that. Is he in the right place? I’m extracting below some of […]

A reputational platform: a market-based alternative to occupational licensing

Occupational licensing (OL) is one of the worst ways to deal with alleged problems of information asymmetry (essentially problems about trustworthiness including trustworthy deliver of a product of agreed quality and in a timely manner). There is a good amount of literature on this issue. However, we need to explore whether market based solutions exist, […]

Sorry, S. Gurumurthy, you are totally wrong on almost everything

Someone shared this video of Gurumurthy’s talk on demonetisation in September 2017 in Chennai and asked for my views: First of all, the talk is too long and rambling, so I looked to the internet for summaries. This written article provides good context about this man and his speech. Thereafter, I scrolled the above youtube audio to […]

The nature and extent of the coronal mass ejection policy problem and what can be done about it

This follows on from here. Do read that page for introductory info. This post is for my analysis. It will be constantly updated. Bookmark it and come back in a week. Is this a big deal? Yes. “In 2015, Peter Pry, executive director of the Electromagnetic Pulse Task Force on National Homeland Security, testified before […]

Stop being idiots – Dalits, Hindutvawadis! Wake up!

My comments on the Bhima Koregaon issue on FB: Is really unfortunate that people have fought for (or against) something that happened 200 years ago and in that process caused loss of life, property and economic value today. There is an acute sense of mindlessness to this kind of thing. Of course, the entire concept of […]

A happy new year to everyone – and a call for 50 more SBP candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

I had a long chat over phone to discuss progress in Bhadohi. As some of you who are following SBP’s Facebook page already know, some truly fantastic work is going on, and much more is planned in the new year. I thereafter sent out this message to some people – this message is actually meant […]

The reason to avoid BOGUS “liberals” like Sadanand Dhume and Yazdi Palia

Sadanand Dhume is a bogus liberal – a lapdog of Modi. He periodically writes about liberalism. I worked out his collectivist mindset long ago, when he supported Modi outright. Just noting. Today I shared one of his articles on my FB page and noted: Dhume is an arrogant intellectual hot air windbag who will never […]

Hindi translation by Rahul Rana of The Law by Bastiat

India Policy Institute has published today the February 2017 Hindi translation by Rahul Rana of Bastiat’s The Law. http://indiapolicy.org/2017/12/hindi-... This translation has been awaiting a formal launch for a long time, and while that happens, it is crucial to get this excellent work out into the public domain. Please download this from here and share with […]