at various levels the common man has been told lies. The common man being the common man, he believes the newspapers, the television channels, the experts who come on television, the advisers, the media experts…..and everybody and everyone. Let us see some more of the lies that he/ she believe: 1. India is a socialistic […]
When you grow up in Ghatkopar and live there for 3/4ths of your life, most friends tend to be Jains. So over the past 10 days a lot of them called me to say ‘Michhami Dukkadam’. And as is wont, I repeated it. Little did I realize that I am communicating far, far more on […]
Not getting into too much of detail about what Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged..but the dialogue is worth reading. Google and find it please. She says in many of her articles that people who are goons have no respect for money and they will take it away from you. Now one easy way of […]
The job of an army man was considered cosy because we did not fight a war since 1971. However we sent peace keeping forces all over the world, and a few jawans would have lost their lives there. Also some army men would have been killed in Kashmir, North East, and some smaller operations in […]
A few days ago I had done a small note on Ayn Rand. She was a Economic Philosophy writer who found that US A had too much governmental interference. If you are a student of Economics you understand the word ‘rent’ in the correct sense. Rent seekers are those people who have been able to […]
I hope there are many readers of my blog who are fans of Ayn Rand. She surely made a whole generation think about money in a more positive light. Of course agreeing with her philosophy of the ‘Art of Selfishness’ is difficult, it is at least a thought. I do not know whether I am […]
Ayn Rand says “money is the root cause of all good”. Indian philosophy says ‘money increases desire – and like ghee and wood to a fire – increases desire and misery’. Immaterial of whether you take the western view or the eastern view, all of us have at some point chased money, have we not? […]