Category: Random Draws

Deception but not Self-Deception

B Raman’s piece Pakistan’s World of Illusions in OutlookIndia.com ends rather surprisingly. Raman makes a very convincing case of Pakistan’s duplicity — not a very difficult thing to do, you would say. Perhaps the people at the Time of India running the crazy Aman ki Asha scheme need to read Raman. What I find puzzling is the paragraph Raman concluded with. Continue reading “Deception but not Self-Deception”

Why Government Monopolies are Bad: The School Choice Example

If you thought the USA was the land of the free and the home of the brave, think again. Even the US is not free from government control. And it is going to get a lot worse. A Center for Freedom and Prosperity video explains why government monopolies are bad. “Competition promotes innovation and results in higher quality and lower costs. Government-run schools are a tragic example, by contrast, of why monopolies generate bad results. This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is a better approach.” Continue reading “Why Government Monopolies are Bad: The School Choice Example”

Have you read Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”?

The other day I was reflecting that the world has great literature and that it’s a great pity that I will probably never really get to read even a small fraction of it. I have not read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace“, for example. Those Russians, I tell you, were great authors. Take Dostoyevsky. Continue reading “Have you read Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”?”

The Distinction between People and Ideologies

This is a post explaining once again my views on Islam and why I write what I do. This is in response to the comments to a post from yesterday, Geert Wilders is a Maladjusted Person. This post will not be of interest to you if you don’t care about the topic of Islamic terrorism.
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Coke Harvests Rain Water in Madhya Pradesh

A news item reports that Coke has completed some rain water harvesting projects in MP. “The projects have the combined capacity to harvest 36 lakh liters (3.6 million liters) of rainwater annually, benefiting the schools and surrounding communities.” Good start.
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Matters may not have improved much

“A demoralized, timid, and hopeless mass bullied and crushed by every dominant interest and incapable of resistance.” Who said this about whom and when? Continue reading “Matters may not have improved much”

JNU and Commie Hypocrisy

Too much hypocrisy in the air these days. Commies, Christians, Congressis, . . . the list goes on. The three C’s converge on the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University — which is appropriate and right.
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Nehru rate of Growth was due to Lack of Will and Vision

For anyone to do anything great requires will and vision. True for an individual, true for a nation. India is stuck not because it does not have the resources but because it does not have the will and the vision to succeed. To be more accurate, India has not had leaders who have the required will and vision to make use of India’s resources, such as they are. The so-called “Nehru rate of growth” was the consequence of having leaders with little will and even less understanding — starting of course with Nehru.
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