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The difference between Abraham Lincoln and Narendra Damodardas Modi
December 15, 2019, 10:53 PM IST
Humans differ from ordinary animals in only one thing: We aspire to a moral lodestar, we prefer to direct our actions towards something greater than us. Some call this spirituality, others (like me) like to…
December 15, 2019, 10:53 PM IST
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On 12 December 2019, farmers are launching a movement for complete freedom
December 10, 2019, 11:39 AM IST
The farmers have had it to their neck. While industrialists can buy land without limit, farmers are treated as second class citizens and can’t buy or sell land or other inputs freely. They can’t buy…
December 10, 2019, 11:39 AM IST
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Time to call out Hindutva: Democratic India was founded on freedom, but the two nation theory is diametrically opposed
October 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Even a child knows that there are no national boundaries in nature. Nations and nationalism are purely man-made constructs. Nations have to be imagined, then made real by erecting and defending boundaries. The raison d’etre…
October 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Looking behind the scenes of the well-orchestrated climate hysteria
August 22, 2019, 11:25 AM IST
We know there is simply no basis for climate alarm. All “scientific” predictions have failed, life has survived happily with much higher CO2 in the past, the medieval warming period a thousand years ago was…
August 22, 2019, 11:25 AM IST
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Designing India’s new GM regulatory system from first principles
August 4, 2019, 3:09 PM IST
In a previous article, I showed why India’s GM regulatory system needs a complete overhaul. In particular, the precautionary principle must be rejected and elements of the American model considered. But even the American approach…
August 4, 2019, 3:09 PM IST
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Democracy has been mangled in Bhadohi
April 28, 2019, 11:30 AM IST
A few months ago I reported on the superb work in Bhadohi district in where young leaders are taking the message of liberty to the people. Thousands of people in Bhadohi were keen to vote…
April 28, 2019, 11:30 AM IST
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A significant alternative view on the history of Hinduism
March 27, 2019, 3:31 PM IST
I’m taking a short break from political and economic matters to discuss Hinduism. I don’t have any religion but have considerable interest in the history of religions. Sanjay Sonawani, a Marathi writer has proposed a…
March 27, 2019, 3:31 PM IST
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Good policy is about harnessing greed, not stifling it
March 22, 2019, 5:16 PM IST
Few things are more misunderstood than the concept of greed. But surely the desire to “have a bit more” cannot be unambiguously bad. We depend on a level of greed to impel entrepreneurs to put…
March 22, 2019, 5:16 PM IST
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Managing congestion in India will require world class economic policy
February 2, 2019, 5:31 PM IST
Our elderly, particularly those who live in the crowded parts of cities, find it extremely difficult to get out of their house and face the traffic, the broken footpaths and the absent zebra crossings. Urban…
February 2, 2019, 5:31 PM IST
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The liberals have entered the electoral fray
December 11, 2018, 9:23 PM IST
It has been a long and difficult journey to get a liberal party up and running. Despite my initial optimism twenty years ago about such an endeavour, it was never going to be easy. Socialism…
December 11, 2018, 9:23 PM IST
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Reset the cow debate: Article 48 threatens to blow up the soul of our nation and must be repealed
October 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The chronic spate of lynchings of innocents in the name of the cow is a wake-up call for the country. India’s carefully woven fabric of unity is being torn asunder, with collateral damage to the…
October 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Get out of farmers’ way: In the end government interventions end up sustaining, not reducing, rural poverty
June 19, 2018, 2:01 AM IST
While most other sectors were liberalised in 1991, agriculture was not. Indian farmers arguably remain among the most unfree in the world. Some claim India won’t be able to feed itself without the government playing…
June 19, 2018, 2:01 AM IST
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Five reforms PM can consider: Government must focus on its core functions, maximum government yields minimum governance
February 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
India’s leading industrialists in a Switzerland conference a few months ago were positive that India was now on the cusp of sustained 10% GDP growth. I demurred, pointing out the barrier of India’s chronic governance…
February 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Who’s pseudo-secular now? Sure, Yogi Adityanath, do build a Ram statue – but with your own money
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s plan to build a Ram statue comes from the party which for 30 years has hammered us with the “pseudo-secularism” of other parties. There was a time when we thought BJP…
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Can India be First World? We dream of leapfrogging to First World status, here’s how to do it in real life
July 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
At a recent India Meeting in Switzerland organised by Horasis, the question was asked whether India can achieve 10% growth given the wide range of reforms underway, such as GST, bankruptcy laws, privatisation and digitisation…
July 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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For a liberal India: The country now has its first liberal party, the Swarna Bharat Party
April 1, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Till 1991, decades of central planning, licence raj and big government had crushed the confidence of Indian youth in their ability to compete globally. Liberalisation changed all that. India integrated into the global economy, started…
April 1, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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