As a liberal party, our default position is to reject any government intervention in the lives of people unless it is thoroughly justified. In particular, we reject the wishy-washy precautionary principle. Real harm must be proven before even the thought of government intervention is entertained. It is a matter of concern to us that Indian […]
A bunch of bureaucrats at the utterly pathetic Ministry of Finance have come up with a draft bill basically banning any economic activity using bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Well, good luck. It might be hard for these bureaucrats and ministers to get this in their heads, but we repeat: SIMPLE ENCRYPTION 1 = message 4 […]
The Real Athenian Democracy From: Mises India Democracy is our present world’s political religion. India supposedly is world’s largest democracy. We are being bombarded everyday by politicians, media pundits, academicians and other intellectuals about the virtues of democracy. In his second term’s first Mann ki Baat program prime minister Modi termed democracy as a part […]
From: Bharat Karnad (PAF’s 2-seater F-16D) The dust has not quite settled on the little matter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting Donald Trump, per Trump, to mediate on the Kashmir dispute. Because, in the face of foreign minister K Jaishankar’s “categorical denial” in Parliament regarding any such request, the US President’s Special Assistant Larry […]
From: Sanjeev Sabhlok appeared on TOI, July 23, 2019, 3:59 PM IST. We have evolved as a species to be curious about scary things. Newspapers love to publish scary reports, which are like click-bait: they catch our attention. Health scares fascinate us the most. Environmental scares grab… We have evolved as a species to be curious about […]
From: GGI News In a significant move, which will have repercussions at multiple levels, the World Bank has decided to pull out of the $300 million lending to the Amaravati Capital City project in Andhra Pradesh. Activists have claimed it a major victory for the people. After Bolivia, now Indians have declared freedom from Central Bankers. […]