good reading

New socialism in India

Hazlitt’s Way to Will Power

Let the good times roll

The mainstream remains clueless about F A Hayek in India

the strongest had fenced off plots of land for themselves and forced the weak to acknowledge the right of private property. 

Prof Bibek Debroy on Speculating and hoarding and making them legal by nuuy state

Why more IITs are bad idea for Modi government

Professor Kancha on CM turned PM Modi

Prof.Kancha Ilaiah wrote in 2002 something very interesting about BJP and Modi. Those wise wisdowms become true to the words of Prof. The following are two paras the beginning and the concluding one:

• "NARENDRA MODI'S victory with a two-thirds majority in Gujarat has signalled the emergence of a strong, independent OBC (Other backward Class) leader in the BJP. Earlier, two independent OBC leaders — Laloo Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav — had emerged from the fold of socialist politics in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. But that was in the context of the Yadavs emerging as landed gentry with some socio-economic capital.

• There is a lesson here for the secularists and the communists. As Hinduism did not allow Dalits to get into temples they began to move towards Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. If the secularists and the communists do not allow the OBCs to grow in their organisations Mr. Modi will become their national leader and their Prime Ministerial candidate too. And in such a situation, feeble OBC voices like mine will be drowned."

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Interesting observation by Swapan Dasgupta.

"You could, at a stretch, be permitted the luxury of advocating market economics and criticising India’s socialistic pattern of development. But since the Swatantra Party had gone into voluntary liquidation in 1973, this was an indulgence the socialist Establishment conceded to those whose only expression of organised opposition lay in attending Nani Palkhivala’s annual budget sermons in Bombay and Calcutta."

Why Gujarati Muslims are with Modi

Good reading

Some really good articles have been penned by both friends and others on the new government in Delhi and the power of free market economics: 

India must promote market competition to eradicate social discrimination

Fighting poverty through markets

Seven sins of hubris of UPA government

Article 370: Answers for a friend