Praxeology: My Reflexions on India

A couple of months ago I was an obliged member of a team preparing the Surat district human development report for the Gujarat State, and the Central Planning Commission, India. Following are my anecdotal observations about my encounters with the government bureaucrats and politicians during this work. Although those who know the nature of the government won't feel at all surprised to read my observations, and it will all sound very obvious to them, but others might find it very useful to understand how the government really works. This will also prove the worthlessness of preparing such reports. To begin with, when GoG's human development directorate assigned this work to my department, the first instruction from them was not to write anything against the present government; to highlight the success [sic] stories of their various welfare plans even when no such successes were seen on the ground level, and to falsely praise the local and state government. Basically, avoiding th...

Kashmir is burning again! Civil uprising is on going since past couple of months, and tension is running extremely high. More than 100 Kashmiri have already lost their lives totaling more than 80,000 deaths since the beginning of Kashmir dispute some 62 years ago. The beautiful Kashmir valley is in dispute since the time of Indian independence. Everything apparently seems convoluted, but it's not. The solution of Kashmir problem is straight forward, but because the solution is politically incorrect no body will implement it. Moreover, politician gangs, who are uncontested rulers of the valley, will surely won't wish their empire to end very abruptly, which it will if they adopt the solution I am going to outline in the following paragraphs. Kashmir is yet another legacy of British Raj in India. The smart-ass Brits gave Israel - Palestine conflict to the middle east when they left from there, and gave Kashmir to India and Pakistan who separated at the time of their independence...

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The recent so-called fake encounter case (as if real encounters are in anyway justifiable!) of Mr. Shorabuddin and the follow up events of CBI arrest of various politicians has stirred the environment in Gujarat and India. Every news channel and newspaper is running this story. On every nooks and corners of the streets, at every restaurants, almost at any place people are busy discussing this case. In my view the issue is getting an attention which it does not deserve because of the reasons I am going to elaborate in the following paragraphs. The problem with the whole issue is not that the encounter was just or not, but the issue is, such government (which political party that question is irrelevant because the matter always is between the citizens and their governments) killings of their citizens take place everyday all around the world. As I have reported elsewhere, Hawaii University professor R J. Rummel's data records shows that governments around the world have killed total 2...

The recent episode of NDTV's We the People (the word WE, with its collective connotations, is itself a misconceived and misguiding notion. Read the novel WE to understand what I am saying) discussed the surrogacy matter. Following are my comments on this program. One thing is crystal clear from all such programs is, that a poor person and his poverty is a medium of employment for millions of people around the world. No one is really interested in solving any problems of the poor, but everyone is ready to take advantage of their poverty by conducting bogus researches (in State funded brick and mortar universities and research institutes) and airing such useless harmful programs. The hipocrisy of such programs is that they themselves are exploiting the poor! On one side NDTV's tv rating is reaching to the roof and on other side their stupid arguments of regulating the surrogacy trade with some dumb state legislation will inspire the government to enact nonsensical anti-surroga...

Democracy is the most venerated political organization in the whole of human history. It is supposedly the most ingenious invention of the statesmen for the alleged cause of human welfare. But, is it so? The question I want to answer in this blog is - is there any difference between monarchy, medieval serfdom etc., on one side and democracy on the other side? And my answer is NO. Why? Let us see. Under the disguise of the idea of the government ‘for the people, by the people and of the people’, democracies around the world are just another continuation of the power beneath the surface. As brilliantly put forth by De Jouvenel , it is the power that spreads itself under the disguise of different political systems like monarchy and democracy. Among many similar characteristics, one characteristic which I want to emphasize here is the control of power by a singly family. Monarchy is a quintessential example of such power control by one family, but democracy also has similar characteristics...

Inflation is a major problem facing all of us, not only in recent time, but since ages. The true understanding of this problem is lost in the antiquity. Today's mainstream economics is intellectually so bankrupt, and their clandestine aims of becoming the government apologists have obscured the subject matter to such a degree that hardly any of those economists talk or know about the realities of inflation. In all these propaganda game only Austrian school of economics is speaking truth about inflation. I, recently published an article titled, Inflation and Its Cures in India Economy Review . My article uses Austrian economics to dissect the problem of inflation. It discusses its true definition, causes and real solutions. For downloading the paper for your reading please go here - http://www.iipmthinktank.com/publications/India-economy-review-archive.html (my paper is on page number 174, Vol. VII, 31st March 2010 issue).