Oxford University buckles under leftist pressure
To ban or not to ban is always the question many would raise whenever there is an occasion to give a platform to contrarian individuals. But that is the reason we cherish institutions which take the concept of More...
Do Indians prosper only abroad?
The idea that Indians do well abroad and are held back at home is an oft-repeated conviction in its city salons. Indeed the common man has also heard of glittering Indian successes abroad and suspects that all is More...
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...
A Primer on Economics: the disastrous impact of the Nehru Rate of Growth
Counterfactuals are generally instructive and entertaining. But in some cases, it can be deeply distressing to consider them. Those leave us sadder although wiser. And at times they provoke us to anger and outrage More...
A Primer on Economics: Counterfactual exercise in India’s GDP
There comes a time in every endeavour when it becomes imperative that one does a bit of arithmetic. One of the co-founders of the field of artificial intelligence, the late John McCarthy of Stanford University used More...
A PRIMER ON ECONOMICS: RULES OF PROSPERITY
Different parts of the world have different degrees of prosperity. That fact is so obvious, persistent and ubiquitous that it is not the least surprising to us. It is almost as if it is an unalterable feature of More...
A Primer in Economics: Theft
Introduction Why are some countries poor while others rich? That’s a more complex question than the question why a particular person is rich and another poor. The difficulty in the latter case arises because an More...