The great American journalist, essayist, satirist and cultural critic H L Mencken used to say, The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in […]
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Praxeology is a science of human action where we logically spin out all the laws of human action starting from an a priori axiom of human action which is apodictic in nature i.e., necessarily true. In this article I am going to use praxeology to understand and then deduce some of the possible outcomes of […]
With Covid-19 related draconian lock down and ensuing chaos in the Indian society and economy and the continues fiasco of present BJP government with schemes like demonetization, GST, CAA/NRC etc., many people have again started discussing about better alternative (sic) of Narendra Modi. There are groups of people who now think that Aam Aadmi Party […]
Before the Covid-19 pandemic related lock down started in the month of March in India, there were large protests going on against the BJP government’s policies of CAA and NRC. In one of his rallies in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that, his government can’t leave Delhi in Anarchy i.e., all the alleged […]
The original social contract which was prepared by political philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and, especially, Jean Jacques Rousseau has expired. 300 years history of the world has proved that that contract hasn’t worked. It has failed. That contract was designed to bring the institution of Leviathan i.e., the State into existence so that […]