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Economic Impact of the Lock down on India

Covid GDP

Mises India Institute President Dr. Madhusudan Raj was recently interviewed by Mr. Yohan Tengra of Anarchy for Freedom India to discuss the economic fallout of the Covid-19 lock down that the Indian government has imposed since last couple of months. They discussed the following topics: Economic condition of India before the lock down, The main […]

India, A Rudderless Ship

Sinking Ship

To control the spread of coronavirus, India went into a complete curfew on 24th March 2020. For the last two months of this ongoing curfew, the Indian government has repeatedly asserted success. How valid is their claim? And was the lockdown justifiable from a cost-benefit perspective? The government says that it instructed all arriving international […]

Coronavirus and the Emerging Police State in India (Mises Interviews, Episode 3, Mr. Jayant Bhandari )

Coronavirus and the Emerging Police State in India In our third episode we again sit down with Mr. Jayant Bhandari to discuss the on-going Coronavirus Pandemic related lock down that Indian PM Narendra Modi imposed on India on 25th March. Mr. Bhandari discusses and warns Indians about the emerging ‘police state’ in India under the […]

Heads the Government Wins, Tails We the People Lose!

Covid-19 Lock Down

After 17 days of lock down in India, the official figures for total infections and deaths due to Coronavirus are 6,600 and 228 people respectively. At the beginning of this lock down the same numbers were 614 and 9 people respectively. Despite the lock down, infection cases in India have gone up 10  times and […]

Coronavirus and the State

Coronavirus in India

Covid-19 Pandemic The world is in an unprecedented lock down over a threat of a flu virus’s new strain called SARS-Cov-2 that causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19. All the data so far coming suggest that the only group most vulnerable to this disease are very old people with underlying health issues like diabetes, heart […]