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I’m making a quickie visit to Bangalore over the weekend. It is my second favourite city in India after all! Will be there from Saturday morning till Monday evening. Work on those two days, but Sunday looks great for meeting bloggers and friends.
yazad_j [at] yahoo [dot] com is the place to drop me a […]

We have two dogs in the family (both bitches) and I love them. Well, not as much as the others in my family who spoil them rotten. I am often the only dog-disciplinarian in the house. The way my parents equate the dogs with humans has always puzzled me. Till I came across an article […]

Ravikiran shows off how many languages he knows. (BTW, There is some debate whether Tulu is just a dialect or a full fledged language)
Well my turn to show off. English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and French. Can read and write in all. French is very rusty now, but at one time I could tell you about […]

CK, ever the troll, now stoops to insulting libertarians by saying that we must be unemployed to spend so much time debating.

Libertarians on the other hand seem to be largely jobless or they have jobs which are not very demanding - out of curiosity what do members of the cartel do in real life […]

Okay, Mr. Kochukoshy Cheruvettolil. Let us make one last attempt at bringing you back to the path of logic.
These posts started with the title “Debate of the Year”. This is not meant to be a monologue on Libertarianism.
It all started when, in response to a post by Yazad about the so-called “Libertarian Cartel”, you […]

I am taking this forward, but remember that this was meant as a debate between Ck and myself, and not a monologue. So he should finish his responses on the previous thread before responding to this post.
What is a “right”?

So what qualifies to be a right? I am not quoting dictionaries here, but just giving […]

Somehow “I was wrong. Period.” always reminds me of a woman with PMS.
Update by MadMan: But it’s not half as funny as “Unfortunately most men are dickheads. The sooner we realise this, the better.”

And yes, I’m in a snarky mood. Should get better tomorrow.

Opening Salvo
I did not attend an LSS and become a Libertarian. I always had ideas and opinions about the social, economic, political and religious side of life. It is after I attended the seminar that I realised that my ideas fall closest to the Libertarian school of thought. A few years prior to that I […]

So you’ve already heard from Yazad that we’re devising an exam for entry into the CapLib (Capitalist Libertarian) Cartel for deserving men and women. WTF, you ask? You can’t believe that such a thing can actually happen? Well, here are some possible reasons for having a proper “entrance exam” for entry into this august body:
1) […]

Not satisfied with just a category, I’ve created a whole new blog for the huge collection of jokes on my computer.
Today’s post is a favourite song, with the lyrics suitably modified. Enjoy!

If you must ask why, my initials are YPJ.

So what do you call a group of bloggers who are staunch advocates of the free market? A cartel! Sounds anthithetical? Yes. But don’t blame us. The moniker was first used by Shanti and it seems to have stuck.
Ravi, MadMan and Gautam were (are) guest bloggers on AnarCapLib and we started to, well, dominate the […]

You don’t have to be Brit to posses biting wit. The very American P J O’Rourke shows how.
A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in […]

A few days back I spent a weekend at my cousin’s farmhouse near Alibaug. I enjoy spending time with her as we often spark off interesting conversations. I was reading Tom Palmer’s Globalization and Culture: Homogeneity, Diversity, Identity, Liberty (download the pdf file) and started to talk about it.
She perked up and asked me:
But what […]

So they worked it out. The Congress (I) and the Left agreed on a Common Minimum Programme for this country, even though the Left’s outdated ideas have died in the very countries from which they came.
Suman Palit, a fellow Libertarian, however is not impressed. He recommends, “…if you have money invested in India, I […]

“I’m not religious; I’m spiritual”
I’ve heard this a fair few times, and it’s always puzzled me. First of all, the whole “spirituality” concept is fuzzy in my mind, possibly because different people have different ideas about what it means to be spiritual. It doesn’t help that every other Tom, Dick, and Dickless fella has written […]