Rajiv Malhotra
By Atanu Dey On Saturday, July 18th, 2015
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Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys Target Rajiv Malhotra

Note: To those of you that are aware of the background of our relationship with Rajiv Malhotra, we would like to reiterate our commitment to protecting our Dharma from all forms of attacks and hence this piece finds More...

By Atanu Dey On Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
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The Indian Press is Loathsome

People deserve the government they get. That’s generally true, but in the particular case where the government is democratically elected, as H L Mencken observed, “the common people know what they want, and More...

By Atanu Dey On Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
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Yoga has a religion: it is Hinduism

My immediate response to the assertion that ‘Yoga has no religion’ is a flat denial. Because I know Yoga, Yoga is a friend of mine and I can truthfully attest to the fact that Yoga does indeed have a religion. More...

By Atanu Dey On Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
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Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing a year

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded More...

By Atanu Dey On Saturday, January 24th, 2015
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India shouldn’t mourn a terror-sponsor

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. – Will Durant (1885-1981). American writer, historian, philosopher. The More...

By Atanu Dey On Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
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How Congress kakistocracy and freeloaders bled India for 60 years

Just off the expressway from Mumbai, on the road leading into Pune, you see huge billboards advertising new housing developments with fancy names like “Whispering Pines” and “Orchard View” crowding each More...

Nehru Edwina
By Atanu Dey On Saturday, November 1st, 2014
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Jawaharlal Nehru: the Clueless Dynast

  As Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday approaches in a couple of weeks, it is time to re-examine his legacy—a legacy that is for the most part is responsible for the mess that India currently is in. I’ve written More...

By Atanu Dey On Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
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Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister who will transform India

Introduction: India’s Phase Transition Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi’s administration can be considered to be a “phase transition” for India’s economy, to borrow a concept from thermodynamics. Phase More...

By Atanu Dey On Saturday, August 16th, 2014
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves

On the occasion of India’s 68th Independence Day it is worth recalling what the Congress did during its time in power. Act 1 Let me tell you a story about an old man who lived in a small village somewhere that More...

By Atanu Dey On Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
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A Primer on Economics: Markets versus Command and Control

There are two broadly defined systems of organizing the production of goods and services in a society, and the subsequent distribution and consumption of the products. One system is called “the market” and the More...