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Poor Sameer over at Opti-mystic is finding that he needs all the Opti-mysm he can get because not enough people are submitting their entries for the next Blog Mela. So do your bit and either write something interesting, or nominate something you found elsewhere, won’t you?

Guest post by Arun “Quizman” Simha
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution (and George Mason University) argues that the music industry often sues its own customers to create commercial norms in which consumers are not trained to think of music as a free commodity. The lawsuits, are meant to serve as deterring signals to young consumers who […]

For a libertarian, legalisation of prostitution is a no brainer. The answer is clearly yes. Today I got a chance to know how clear that was, from the viewpoint of sex workers when I saw Shohini Ghosh’s documentary Tales of the Night Fairies. Shot largely in Calcutta’s red light area of Sonagachi, it is a […]

I’m in Calcutta for the excellent Liberty Art and Culture Seminar. (Feel free to call it Kolkata, but don’t insist that I should too). I’m going to write on the seminar later. This post is on my impressions of Calcutta.

The pollution surprised me. On my earlier visits in 1999 and 2000, it was definitely […]

I’m happy to report that MT-Blacklist is no longer needed on this site. In its place is a spanking new image-based security code system. It shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for you folks.
This is just for you, CK, because you asked for it and we all love you so much. ;)

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast”
From A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
For me, Marine Drive in Bombay is a moveable feast. Wherever I’ve gone, Marine Drive has […]

While reading this article, I came across a term that’s being used often nowadays: quasi-judicial. (It’s on the front page of today’s Economic Times as well)
What’s quasi? It’s really fancy Latin to mean “kinda, but not exactly,” so quasi judicial is to do with the judiciary to some extent, but not completely.
I’ve liked […]

MadMan and I were chatting about someone we both know only very obliquely.
yazadjal: she chats with the lord!
yazadjal: direct connection hai bhai
MadMan: I chat with the lord too
MadMan: then I realise I’m talking to myself again

While doing some reading for a seminar that I will be attending later this week, I came across two excellent articles by Leon Louw. I remembered hearing an earlier version of these articles when Leon was in Delhi in February 2002.
The Miracle of Poverty
Poverty is miraculous, perhaps the most extraordinary accomplishment of […]

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution is in Bombay today and tomorrow. I will be meeting up with him and if there are any cartel members or others who would like to join us, please contact me.