Your response to Mahesh’s comment illustrates your attitude…

“Enjoy the IDEA”!? That should count as the zenith of intellectual BSing.

Do you have any idea how half witted your political understanding is? Arising as it does, from the best intentions of an upper middle class, urban indian, supposed intelligentsia position, that has been left unexamined by you.

There was an article in the current Time Out on you people, so I barged in, only to realise that I’ve crashed some upper class tea party.

Mr Jal, your sensibilities reek of someone who has little or no exposure to the notion of humanity except as an exploiter or in exploitative circumstances. and coupled with your miserable middle class good will, you see these shitty eurocentric realities as the givens of ‘life’ today.

Before you continue to pronounce on the world in an uneducated way and ‘theorize’ on this bizarre model that you have in your head, (which is not a model, my friend it’s just an outcome of the shittiest economic system known to man..), read some more.

Yes, in a country of corrupt Indians, how dare the government involve itself in rural employment? or worse still education?????

Let some more farmers commit suicide, after all let’s remember Natural Selection.

Expand your reading to a little more than Friedman and Ayn Rand, and what you find in the economic section of Crossword.

Or if thats too much work, atleast to your self, acknowledge your own lack of empathy and respect for human life.

I’ll be keeping watch on your website, and posting more insults when necessary. (If you have the decency and basic democratic ethos to put this on in the first place)

The first part was very interesting though I do hope you were not serious in the second part! As to the role of the state-provision of education and employment should be provided for by the state, to a certain extent, though not like Villepin! Though to discuss that here is to go off-topic.

The police has failed miserably-the level of corruption which has seeped into it at every level is well known to all. There are a multitude of reasons for this, including lack of dedication and motivation.

Even the tiniest success by them shows us that there might still be hope, however vague, because to only look at the bad side is to fall to the lowest levels of despondency. Secondly, there are some good officers out there though their number is shockingly low. Jessica Lal’s case shows not only mishandling by the police force but also how power and influence can go a long way to shelter the lowest of criminals.

ayn rand’s misplaced views on ‘competing governments’ have been thoroughly ridiculed by linda and morris tannehill in their classic, “The Market for Liberty”.

there is no reason why a State is required either to “enforce” property rights or to “enforce” contracts or to “adjudicate” torts. all these - property, contracts and torts - have their base in custom and tradition, and these customs and traditions pre-date the birth of the modern State.

That is, property came before the law or the state, as did the ‘market’.

Study Ayn Rand’s theory of competing governments carefully before you decide to advocate such careless libertarian theories. And while doing that, keep in mind that property and human rights are not subject to free-market forces or competing agencies.