From Sane Space : Libertarian Dispatches From Bizarro America In response to something I’d written about labor unions, a critic started badgering me about child labor. What a terrible feature of capitalism, he said. No, it was a terrible feature of all of world history, I replied. Thank goodness for people who passed laws against […]
From: GGI News Here is why the Chandrayaan 2 Moon Mission was called off by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). ISRO had constituted a multidisciplinary expert committee on Monday to study the technical glitch. It was found that the helium gas bottle in the cryogenic engine had failed to build pressure due to a leak […]
From: Great Game India American President Donald Trump has kicked off a storm stating that he will initiate an investigation looking to “treasonous activities” by American multinational technology company Google. With Google having played a role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008, will the India government investigate Google’s suspicious role in India as well? […]
From: Great Game India Contrary to the belief that mathematics is universal, Indian arithmetic had a distinctive philosophy which is best understood in a historical perspective. Two plus two is not always four: why zero so confused Europeans. From the time of the Yajurveda, the Indian system of numeration utilised the place value system, the […]
By Madhusudan Raj on Mises India Chapter 2, Vol I of the Economic Survey of India 2018-19 begins with this title: Policy for Homo Sapiens, Not Homo Economicus: Leveraging the Behavioural Economics of “Nudge”. It starts with the following Sanskrit stanza: We cannot rely totally on rational thinking to gain information, as it is not […]
From BullionStar.com on Zerohedge Smuggling gold to India and Japan has become a lucrative business for many dealers and middlemen across Asia. It is widely known that demand for physical gold by Asian populations is insatiable. From the estimated 25,000 tonnes of gold held by India’s population to the more than 20,000 tonnes of gold calculated to be held […]