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Reports of total integrity and honesty of the people in ancient India #1: Megasthenes

The following is an extract from the book: India as described by Megasthenes by Narain Singh Kalota. This shows clearly that despite having become a corrupt society under misrule prior to Chandragupta Maurya, the people of India had become extraordinarily honest when a good government took charge. ==EXTRACT=== People before Chandragupta’s reign groaned in various cases […]

IMPORTANT: The transformation of Chechnya from mostly secular to fanatic Muslim in six years

  We need to fully understand the EXTREME DANGERS of the Islamic political ideology. It appears that Chechnya degenerated from state secularism to extreme fanaticism in the course of a mere six years. This transformation in the course of a mere six years sends shivers through my spine. Political Islam is the worst kind of […]

LKY’s views about India’s PMs and IAS – in his own words!

These are superb extracts about India from LKY’s book, From the Third World to First LKY AND NEHRU As a young student, I admired Nehru and his objective of a secular multiracial society. Like most nationalists from British colonies, I had read his books written during his long years in British jails, especially his letters […]

LKY was only a half-baked leader till 1968 when he spent time at Harvard to learn many new things

This extract from LKY’s book, From Third World to First, is very interesting: After I had settled policies to counter the loss of British military spending, in the autumn of 1968, I took a short sabbatical at Harvard. I had been in office for nine years and needed to recharge my batteries, get some fresh […]

Frederick Douglass and Gandhi both wanted the poor to be left free

Gandhi wrote: ‘All the help that the poor need is that the world gets off their backs’. And Frederick Douglass wrote: “if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall”. The common theme is to STOP the “do-gooders” particularly government from destroying the poor with their misguided charity. The article below has particular relevance […]

JS Mill’s “On Liberty” is about elitism, not freedom. Thanks to Thomas Sowell for pointing this out.

I’m currently studying JS Mill’s serious errors in the formulation of the concept of natural monopoly, on which I’ll put out a blog post in due course. Mill was wrong on a number of other issues as well, and veered towards socialism towards the end of his life. But this article by Sowell is crucial […]

Slavery in the USA was NOT a racist institution. Worth repeating and understanding.

This is an absolutely crucial article by Thomas Sowell, particularly given the talk about “reparations” in the USA. (I’ve make similar comments regarding slavery in the manuscript: The Discovery of Freedom) == One of the many sad signs of our times is that people are not only playing the race card, they are playing the […]

Blacks were almost WIPED OUT from the job market after the minimum wage laws in USA

Thomas Sowell is one of the world’s best economists alive today. His analyses are brilliant – without exception. I’m particularly interested in his analyses of the completely opposite consequences of bad policies. E.g. he wrote: “you will discover that “gun control” laws do not control guns, the government’s “stimulus” spending does not stimulate the economy […]

Liberal thought in Maharashtra, 1974 dissertation by Rajendra M Vora

Came across this. Have combined into a PDF, here. Also OCRd the sixth chapter here, and am sharing it below. CHAPTER VI SUMMING UP The Liberal thinkers like Lokhitwadi, Phoolay, Ranade, Agarkar and Gokhale were interested in transformation of society according to Liberal values. Therefore they took active part in the Liberal movement. In fact […]

India’s reality today, in the documentary Reason by Anand Patwardhan

Thanks to Melroy Fernandes for sharing this: https://scroll.in/reel/893699/india-t... The full documentary is very long and has been broken up into snippets on Youtube that can be accessed here. The documentary provides deep insight into the vicious and violent India that’s being created by RSS and Modi. The situation is dire and the world is simply […]