Oxford University press India has refused to publish an upcoming book To Kill a Democracy by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane possibly because of fear of the Narendra Modi government. This book is highly critical of the policies of the Modi government. Asia Times reports: In an apparent attempt to avoid offending the government […]
Tag Archives: Democracy
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Feb
Feb
In the latest episode of Mises Interviews, our returning guest Mr. Jayant Bhandari discusses the phenomenon of the rise and decline of the Western civilization. He talks about its potential causes and then he discusses what lessons the world can learn from this decline. He also talks about the future of the ideas like Liberty […]
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Mar
Mar
Recently the American president Donald Trump was on his maiden visit to the Indian nation state. During his visit to New Delhi, India’s capital, the city witnessed big communal violence in which, so far, around 53 people have lost their lives. Hindu nationalist goons clashed with the Muslim mob. In these clashes, one police constable […]
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Jul
Jul
Democracy is our present world’s political religion. India supposedly is world’s largest democracy. We are being bombarded everyday by politicians, media pundits, academicians and other intellectuals about the virtues of democracy. In his second term’s first Mann ki Baat program prime minister Modi termed democracy as a part of India’s culture and heritage while on […]
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Oct
Oct
Elections are the major rituals of the modern day secular religion of Democracy. Elections in four states and the grand 2019 Loksabha election, were the fate of the Modi government will be decided, are coming up again. Now round the clock people will be bombarded, by the mainstream media, with the message of how important […]
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