India vs. Bharat
Very worrying article about how the rural-urban divide seems to be widening in India/ Bharat. The other notable point is how rural, backward, under-developed parts of the country are now routinely labelled as “Bharat”....
Category: Indian Economy
Specious Arguments and False Propoganda
Chanced on this article a few days back, “Banks have no faith in Muslims” It is so blantantly propagandist, I am surprised that someone like IBN found it fit to go in print and...
India in the 1820s…
I first came across this graph on Greg Mankiw’s blog. Greg is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and he was referring an article written by Michael Milken (the former junk-bond king who fell into disgrace) in a recent...
Loot – in search of East India Co. (excerpts)
Several months ago, I wrote this essay on the Economic Exploitation and Drain of Wealth During the British “Raj”. The essay relied�heavily�on research by Western historians to make the point about economic exploitation during...
Newsweek cover story on India…
The latest issue (Mar 6 ’06) of Newsweek has a cover story on India by Fareed Zakaria. Some interesting excerpts from the article: …Over the past 15 years, India has been the second fastest-growing...
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