Praxeology: My Reflexions on India

An open letter to all the finance ministers of Indian government Mr. Finance Minister, Budget year is here and you are again in the prime focus. As is the tradition, you have asked the populace to present their wishes for the coming budget to you (as if you can fulfill their wishes!). I doubt and I am sure that none of you can and none of you are going to fulfill my following wishes but anyways I am making them. My wish list: Abolish all taxes, Reduce government expenditure to zero, Once you do this, you resign and leave government for some productive work in the market. Yours truly, An individual who is fade up with the government......

On one side Gujarat chief minister is handing out free cash doles to poor people (see here ) and on other side he is blaming central government for the rising prices. This shows the ignorance and hypocrisy of the chief minister. If he knew what actually inflation is, then he would have never blamed the central government. Inflation is, increase in the quantity of money and credit without any backing of production. Stated otherwise, handing out free cash doles to poor people, under his “ Garib Kalyan Mela ” is itself inflation! Chief Minister is creating inflation on one hand and is blaming central government for inflation on other hand! Now surely central government is also responsible for inflation but this does not deny the fact that even state governments are responsible for inflation. Actually, government taken as a whole is the chief source of inflation. Shifting the blame of inflation on central government by the chief minister is hypocrisy. Poor people (and the masses) do not un...

Indian people celebrate their 61st Slavery Day (I mean, Republic Day, which is a false connotation) today. On 15th August, 1947 Indian people were freed from the slavery of one master i.e. the Britishers, and today on 26th January, 1950, they again became (and continue to be) the slaves of their new master, their own Government ! Very few people realize the similarities between lives of Indian people under the British rule and their life under the rule of their own government, but, similarities are there for sure. Here is a list of these similarities: As Aamir Khan has depicted very vividly in his movie "Lagaan", Indian people were robbed by the Britishers through heavy taxation called "Laggan" under their rule. Is there any difference between that era of "Lagaan" and today's era of heavy "Income Tax" and all other, around 24 different forms of governmental taxation (see details of different forms of tax in India here )? No. Indians are still...

The movie 3Idiots created lot of controversy these days, without any concrete reasons though. More than anything else, the movie proved the idiocy of bollywood producers/directors in understanding the very important concept of, freedom . The movie, basically, tries to send a message of 'freedom of thoughts' in Indian education system, which in its present state is simply a system of rot learning. Unfortunately, the movie turns out to be completely against the 'freedom of thought' message, when in the end of the movie hero (Aamir Khan) becomes very rich scientist by having 'patents' of some 200 inventions! Now any person who favors 'freedom of thought', as is the case with our hero of this movie, can never ever support the system of 'patents'. But the hero not only supports 'patents' he actually uses that system. By taking 'patents' our hero restricts the very 'freedom of thought' which he tried to promote while in his eng...

The recent bill of “compulsory voting in local elections” passed by the government of Gujarat is absolutely unethical, immoral, unconstitutional, and undemocratic. Gujarat is a state which is passing bills and enacting legislations which are in direct contradiction with the Indian constitution and more importantly are against human ethics. For example, Article 25 of the Indian constitution gives a right to every citizen to follow religion of their choice. India describes herself as a secular country. But Gujarat government recently has passed an anti conversion bill where any person who wants to convert (change) their religion has to take State government’s permission! I fail to understand what kind of secularism is this? Notwithstanding the Indian constitution, this bill is a direct attack on person’s liberty and thus is absolutely unethical. The recent bill of compulsory voting in local elections is also similarly unethical, unconstitutional and undemocratic act of the government of ...