Tag Archives: State

A Praxeological Analysis of India-China Nation State Border Tension

India China Border Tension

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 […]

Can Congress, AAP or any other Political Parties or Schemes Save Indians?

Political Alternative

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 […]

A New Social Contract

Social Contract

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 […]

Against the Grain and the State

James C. Scott has rewritten the history of the “civilization” in his recent book Against the Grain. He turns the mainstream narrative of civilization on its head with the help of evidences coming from various fields of sciences. In doing so, he rewrites the history of man himself. In rewriting  the mainstream narrative, Scott has […]