A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

by Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

The opposite of secularism is not communalism but theocracy, for secularism is a feature of the State; nation-states can be secular or theocratic. Communalism is a feature of all societies.

Individual freedom and local self-rule are very different from independence.

less than one per cent of the communities notified as OBC corner 50 per cent of the reservation benefits in central educational institution admissions and recruitment to central services.

India should strive to remove all identity markers from the State’s business

‘the rational mind always falls in love with its own creations’.

‘market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentions rather than their results.

It is the textbook example of how innovating for the bottom of the pyramid can degenerate into a paternalistic condescension of creating low-quality products that have poor usability.

Capitalism, like caste, is a social order and therefore uniquely qualified to subvert and destroy the caste system from the inside, as opposed to the State, which is a political order and intervenes in the caste society from the outside.’90

order precedes liberty and freedom. Without order, there can only be anarchy.

Historically, the State grew to make war and facilitate trade.