Recently, I read a post on FB, that Economists only record economic activity in a region or nation, like a chronicler and that Economists do not run the Economy.
From 2004 to 2014 India had a renowned Economist as the Prime Minister who was running the Indian Economy, with his men as head of Reserve Bank and as Economic advisers to the Government Of India. He is said to have run the economy effectively for a “ fruitful “ ten year period.
Later the Congress lost the 2014 general elections and B J P came to power. The B J P Prime Minister has his own economists in the Reserve Bank and in his set of economic advisers.
So, economists are playing an important role in the administration irrespective of which party is in power. These economists are thrown up from prestigious institutions like the London School Of Economics, Harvard university and such highly rated institutions. What they have learnt and what they practice are two drastically divergent issues. They are bogged down by their inherent or imbibed political ideologies.
Never do they feel the pulse of the grass root happenings nor do they care to carry out any course corrections as they go along making fundamental mistakes. The reason for this is they never see Economics as a dynamic science. For them it is of a plain academic matter for writing books, theories and expecting peer recognition in seminars and other academic activity. And expect the Nobel Prize for their Theories. It is immaterial for them whether the theories are practical, whether they are yielding the desired results or not.
There have been successful economies in Asia too, where the economic policies were tailored for their specific needs and their citizens. Not by any London School Of Economics stalwart, or a Nobel laureate, but by a practical thinking Prime Minister. Like for example Singapore.
They realized capitalism is needed to build infrastructure, start industries, to generate wealth and to utilize the wealth created in such a way that the people are the main beneficiaries with their own participation in creating, conserving and distributing the wealth created.
Every person needs a job to sustain himself. A house to live in. A medical care facility to take care of bad times due to ill health, a viable public transport to move around comfortably and easily, a pension fund arrangement to take care of retired life. The citizen is given a house for which he has to pay, a job to perform with highest possible productivity standards and contribute to all welfare measures in whatever way possible. This is called participatory Economics. As opposed to the Left ideology of just redistribute the wealth available to all “ poor citizens “, without they ever contributing to the economy of the country. Creating a class by itself who grow accustomed to indolence indiscipline and demand that every good thing must come to them free of any cost or effort.
Welfare state does not mean the State will provide everything freely and allow its citizens the freedom to behave the way he/she likes. State for them is the Father who keeps on supplying your needs unto eternity.
In ancient India, in the 4 th Century BCE, there lived an Economist Prime Minister minister called Kautilya or Chanakya, serving a King called Chandragupta Maurya. Chanakya wrote a treatise
called the “ Arthasashtra”, which very few people are aware of. Chanakya is only remembered as a Politician of extraordinary abilities to manipulate and conceive tactics to attain and retain power, either by hook or crook.
This is far from the truth. One should learn more about this great Economistwhose Arthasashtra is as relevant today as it was in his times.
PenguineBooks have published a latest translation by one L N Rangarajan. This will throw ample light on this great treatise of our ancestors.
You will then understand what Chanakya was, what he wrote and how he ran the Gupta Empire Economy.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Macaulay’s Heirs in today’s India
Macaulay, must be turning in his grave and laughing away to eternity to see his political heirs in India keeping alive his principle of hating Hinduism, Hindu Culture and all that bears any resemblance to the ancient Indian Hindu way of life.
After almost more than 18 decades after he delivered the infamous speech in the British Parliament the Pseudo Leftist Atheists Of the Indian stiff collared upper Elite, sipping their Coffees in Posh South Delhi Bunglows and restaurants, preach Macaulay’s principles to hate any thing connected with Hinduism.
In the 19 th Century and early 20thCentury activist Raja Ram Mohan Roy, did yeoman Service to the Hindu Society in trying to weed out undesirable and baseless beliefs like Sati.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak revived the customs and festivals of Hindus which were totally forgotten by the general population educated in the Macaulay enunciated Education system of the ruling Britishers.
One such staunch follower of Macaulay’s principle was Jawaharlal Nehru, who whole heartedly believed and lived his entire life in following what the English education taught him.
He was enamored of the classy British Bara Saheb’s Culture and was the most uncomfortable person amongst Gandhi’s followers in Congress. He hated any reference to the Hindu faith or the Hindu Gods in whom Gandhi believed.
Nehru’s abhorrence for the Hindu Customs was clearly evident in his Will wherein he exhorts his progeny to cremate his body after his death and take the ashes high up into the sky in an aero plane and sprinkle them on land and people who loved him so fondly, because he knew Hindu custom ordains that ashes of dead people be immersed in a river or in a confluence Of rivers or in the ocean.
He just did not want that Hindu custom to be observed for his ashes.
He was cultured, his admirers argue. His culture was pure selfishness, jealousy of any intelligent peer shining in the Congress like Subhash Chandra Bose or Vallabh Bhai Patel or Bheemrao Ambedkar who did not tow his line of thinking.
It was destiny that thrusted greatness and the Prime Minister ship on Nehru.
Bose disappeared after the War in 1945, Patel died in 1950 and Ambedkar was eased out with the brute majority that Nehru had in the Congress.
He was the typical hypocritical Leftist calling himself a Socialist but enjoyed his personal life with Rothman cigarettes, Scotch Whisky and the English Lordly way of living.
He sported the Gandhi cap to fool his Electorate that he was a Gandhian. Because he shrewdly understood that Congress needed the Gandhi stamp to win elections and come to power.
The Hindu identity was revived by pioneers like Tilak, a revival was coming through.
Tilak died and Gandhi became ineffective with the advent of Jawaharlal Nehru on the dominant political scenario orchestrated by the Nehruvian Congress.
Hindu Culture was systematically down played and even humiliated to tell the educated youth that Hindu Customs are the cause for Indian poverty.
The Hindu Code Bill was passed making Divorce legal and silently killed the sacred institution of Hindu marriage by Nehru. And in the same stroke the concept of the Hindu Joint family way of life was eliminated.
Jawaharlal Nehru has gone on record that he always was
“ culturally a Mohammedan “.
He had no respect or belief in Hinduism and he openly decried and ran down anyone who professed to be a devout Hindu.
The famous Somnath temple in Gujarat was being renovated and the then President of the Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad attended and laid the foundation stone for the renovated Somnath temple.
Nehru criticized the President that it was against the principles of Secularism adopted by the Government.
Holding Iftaar Parties during the Holy month of Ramzaan was perfectly Secular for Nehru.
Hinduism will never die with the short sighted policies of the Pseudo Leftists and pseudo intellectuals in this vast country of Hindu majority population. Majoritarianism is the name given to Hindus by its staunch opponents.
Hinduism has a culture and tradition which survived for thousands of years in this Holy Land of Hindu civilizations. It will go on in future too. Nobody can stop it, neither any one is needed to propagate it.
It’s a religion, a faith, a belief in universal brotherhood and well being of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religion, political support or charity of any one individual powerful ruler.
Vasudeva Kutumbikam is the corner stone of this age old Faith, the way of living for the honest and sincere believers in God and His Creation.
Macaulay, must be turning in his grave and laughing away to eternity to see his political heirs in India keeping alive his principle of hating Hinduism, Hindu Culture and all that bears any resemblance to the ancient Indian Hindu way of life.
After almost more than 18 decades after he delivered the infamous speech in the British Parliament the Pseudo Leftist Atheists Of the Indian stiff collared upper Elite, sipping their Coffees in Posh South Delhi Bunglows and restaurants, preach Macaulay’s principles to hate any thing connected with Hinduism.
In the 19 th Century and early 20thCentury activist Raja Ram Mohan Roy, did yeoman Service to the Hindu Society in trying to weed out undesirable and baseless beliefs like Sati.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak revived the customs and festivals of Hindus which were totally forgotten by the general population educated in the Macaulay enunciated Education system of the ruling Britishers.
One such staunch follower of Macaulay’s principle was Jawaharlal Nehru, who whole heartedly believed and lived his entire life in following what the English education taught him.
He was enamored of the classy British Bara Saheb’s Culture and was the most uncomfortable person amongst Gandhi’s followers in Congress. He hated any reference to the Hindu faith or the Hindu Gods in whom Gandhi believed.
Nehru’s abhorrence for the Hindu Customs was clearly evident in his Will wherein he exhorts his progeny to cremate his body after his death and take the ashes high up into the sky in an aero plane and sprinkle them on land and people who loved him so fondly, because he knew Hindu custom ordains that ashes of dead people be immersed in a river or in a confluence Of rivers or in the ocean.
He just did not want that Hindu custom to be observed for his ashes.
He was cultured, his admirers argue. His culture was pure selfishness, jealousy of any intelligent peer shining in the Congress like Subhash Chandra Bose or Vallabh Bhai Patel or Bheemrao Ambedkar who did not tow his line of thinking.
It was destiny that thrusted greatness and the Prime Minister ship on Nehru.
Bose disappeared after the War in 1945, Patel died in 1950 and Ambedkar was eased out with the brute majority that Nehru had in the Congress.
He was the typical hypocritical Leftist calling himself a Socialist but enjoyed his personal life with Rothman cigarettes, Scotch Whisky and the English Lordly way of living.
He sported the Gandhi cap to fool his Electorate that he was a Gandhian. Because he shrewdly understood that Congress needed the Gandhi stamp to win elections and come to power.
The Hindu identity was revived by pioneers like Tilak, a revival was coming through.
Tilak died and Gandhi became ineffective with the advent of Jawaharlal Nehru on the dominant political scenario orchestrated by the Nehruvian Congress.
Hindu Culture was systematically down played and even humiliated to tell the educated youth that Hindu Customs are the cause for Indian poverty.
The Hindu Code Bill was passed making Divorce legal and silently killed the sacred institution of Hindu marriage by Nehru. And in the same stroke the concept of the Hindu Joint family way of life was eliminated.
Jawaharlal Nehru has gone on record that he always was
“ culturally a Mohammedan “.
He had no respect or belief in Hinduism and he openly decried and ran down anyone who professed to be a devout Hindu.
The famous Somnath temple in Gujarat was being renovated and the then President of the Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad attended and laid the foundation stone for the renovated Somnath temple.
Nehru criticized the President that it was against the principles of Secularism adopted by the Government.
Holding Iftaar Parties during the Holy month of Ramzaan was perfectly Secular for Nehru.
Hinduism will never die with the short sighted policies of the Pseudo Leftists and pseudo intellectuals in this vast country of Hindu majority population. Majoritarianism is the name given to Hindus by its staunch opponents.
Hinduism has a culture and tradition which survived for thousands of years in this Holy Land of Hindu civilizations. It will go on in future too. Nobody can stop it, neither any one is needed to propagate it.
It’s a religion, a faith, a belief in universal brotherhood and well being of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religion, political support or charity of any one individual powerful ruler.
Vasudeva Kutumbikam is the corner stone of this age old Faith, the way of living for the honest and sincere believers in God and His Creation.
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