Some links

Some interesting readings:

Dinesh has very interesting post on "Rahul ‘Neelkanth’ Gandhi"

Nitin on two and twenty three years later

Shruti on an economist who read economics without much romance!!

Deepak Lal on Buchanan- “Would citizens voluntarily agree to allow the government to exercise power quite unreservedly, or would they rather seek to impose constraints on the behavior of governments?”

The Shala at Chennai!!

I had great experience in participating at the Shala event at Pune in this May.

What I liked about Shala event even more is the fact that the people talked about things at not easy things but important to understand them especially in today's dynamic political economy situations.

At Pune, I was given a great chance to speak on my research of digging into the free market ideas from our very founders of modern India. There is even more interesting ideas coming out soon from my research!!

The Takshashila Institution has just announced another Shala event in Chennai early next month.

Those of you are interested to participate in the event can register yourself. There is no fee charged for this event. In my view, The Takshashila Institution has many committed people for reforming the ills of systemic issues in our country.

Let's join together to make this event happen like our own!!

Education programm at The Takshashila Institution

INTRODUCING THE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMME

From friend Nitin Pai's article published in the The Atlantic:

• The mainstream political parties missed the plot entirely. The Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government, which first came to power in 2004, set back the process of economic liberalization, by stalling on economic reforms, ostensibly in the name of the "common man." This led to cronyism on the top -- the last decade saw the expansion of family-held conglomerates rather than the start-up successes of the '90s. It also led to rampant corruption in sectors of the economy that were untouched by reforms. The Congress and its allies purchased electoral mileage by introducing entitlements for the rural poor, but Middle India was too rich to be bought off and too poor to be sold to. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which demonstrated a reformist outlook when it led a coalition government at the turn of century, has since become loath to challenge the Congress party's economic idiom, even after this approach failed it in the 2009 elections.

what after 2014?

Nitin says many interesting things in his Yahoo! India column. One such a thing is "The first five Extra-territorial States thus created were Puthiya Keralam, New Jullundur, Jersey Pradesh, Paschima Kannada and Kizhakku Tamilnad."

Buck back to us

Mr.Nitin Pai has very interesting column in DNA wherein he writes: 

• The earliest Indian traditions view the role of the State as protecting its citizens from the predatory world of matsya-nyaya, the law of the fishes, where the strong prevail over the weak. The state, through the establishment of danda niti, the rule of law, ensures that the rights and freedoms of the individual are protected. Citizens surrender a part of their freedoms to the State, so that it may ensure that they can enjoy the rest. This deal is the fundamental premise in the world’s constitutions, including our own. In other words, we citizens have appointed the State as our security guard. It is absurd for the security guard to outsource the job back to us, for then, why do we need the security guard in the first place?

Come SHALA!!

There is a good news!! Brief write up about SHALA has been published in the 14th Livemint "Loung Loves" as "Outside the classroom".

• In scheduled sessions, Takshashila fellows—Pai himself is a fellow of geopolitics—will share their research. Speakers will include government officials such as Navdeep Suri, joint secretary, public diplomacy, ministry of external affairs; and topics such as “India as a swing power” (Pai) and “B.R. Ambedkar as a champion of free markets” (B.Chandrasekaran, Hayekorder.blogspot.com).