I Have To Write – III

Trilogies are treacherous – this one is certainly one – I have no idea whether I can link this one with the other two that have gone before!
But I have to write! So, I write! Too much is going on!
Panchayat elections!
I am an unabashed running dog of the CPI(M). Despite all their inhumanities! Despite the [...]

Why has Amartya Sen stopped learning?

Its been a long sabbatical and I am back to irritate you dear readers by asking unpleasant questions and making”snide” remarks. But here goes:
In a recent two-part article in The Telegraph, Kolkata published on December 29, 2008 and December 30, 2008, Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen has argued, in my view rather weakly when [...]

Spiritual Aspects Of Communism – II

Subhash the following are your words, not mine. I am repeating them for the convenience of readers.

“Productivity is the result of human endeavor. So if people are motivated to endeavor more (in proper, creative ways etc), higher productivity will result. I believe that the capitalistic approach motivates people to endeavor more than the [...]

Is socialism/communism based on scientific thought?

This is a reply to my friend K. Joseph Antony who has claimed in an e-mail message that the claim that socialism/communism is based on scientific thought is “crap”. Another friend has said people living on east of the Kanpu-Chennai line are living in a time warp – he was referring to Leftists in West [...]