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My next TOI blog post: Reform suggestions for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

I hope RSS acts on this.

My next TOI print op-ed: What Lee Kuan Yew knew

This. Note: The editor always changes the title that I send. In this case they ought have said “Lessons FOR India”, not “to India”.

Alternative view to greenhouse effect – that atmospheric density causes heat (Nikolov-Zeller effect)

Publishing this email I received for those with time to investigate further. I won’t have time at present. Some web resources – there is also a peer reviewed paper: On the average temperature of airless spherical bodies and the magnitude of Earth’s atmospheric thermal effect New Climate Discovery Nikolov-Zeller solar system wide climate discovery Dear Mr. […]

How Singapore hires, pays, promotes and fires its bureaucrats – extract from NC Saxena’s book

The fine Indian bureaucrat NC Saxena shared his 2011 book yesterday that is also publicly available: Virtuous Cycles: The Singapore Public Service and National Development To me the answers to four questions determine whether a bureaucracy is high-performing or junk. Here are the answers in NC’s words: Appointment, promotion, discipline, and the public Service commission […]

The performance of climate models

To me climate science will start becoming a real science when its models start tracking reality. I’m creating this post in order to pin it to the top of my Truth about climate change FB page. In fact, EVERYTHING boils down to this – that the climate models MUST accurately predict real temperatures in order […]

My next TOI blog post: Climate science violates the basic precepts of science

This post. But also see my FB page: The truth about climate change

Notes on property rights in China

See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese... and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert... EXTRACT FROM The Logic of the Market by Weiying Zhang (2010) progress in China’s economic development is occurring because China has been moving increasingly toward a private property–based economy from a position-based rights economy. Property rights have become less vague and better protected in the past three decades. The […]

My next TOI blog post: The Chinese transformation is based on mastery over economics

This post is on the Chinese success story and what we can learn from it.

Extracts from a superb article on Singapore – must read this snippet

I’ve written an article on the Singapore model for TOI which is expected to be published in a few weeks. Then, while researching some other issues, I came across this which I’m extracting. A brilliant article in The Economist written in 2011. Go East, young bureaucrat   – Emerging Asia can teach the West a […]

My next TOI blog post: Are we genetically corrupt?

This published on my TOI blog yesterday.