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The Industry of War

The Industry of War Indian partisan brought conflicts of Kashmir Issue, Eastern Pakistan, McMohan Line, and Special States along with it... These conflicts necessitated the accumulation of arms and display of it. By Jitendra Rajaram C onflicts are profitable. It just kills benign people, poor soldiers and turns million’s life miserable but it brings sacks of money in the banks of politicians, businessman and militia. States, no matter how democratic, wants to carry on one or more arms based conflicts in their territories. It yields in multiple ways in the favor of statesmen. By crying loud about these conflicts they provoke national sentiments which enflames citizen’s desire for solution. These cries create the perception of heroes for the statesman. The tribes/people of conflicting warzones fighting for their rights becomes terrorists in the eyes of common man. This perception develops a national sentiment which validates defense expenditure. I.e. for every billion dollar sp...

The Saga of Unnatural Growth of Indian Economy

"Can anything as benign as Green Revolution has any ill-effect? When we were revolutionising the agriculture in one of the world's most fertile land of Haryana and Punjab a factory of pesticide manufacturing called 'Union Carbide' took a million lives in Bhopal gas Tragedy."  By Jitendra Rajaram T he development of mankind is so complex that it is hard to foresee the consequences of even the most thoughtful projects of public administration. In the stroke of midnight of 14th August 1947, India had risen to a new life. The leaders of liberal India were set to draft the fortune of billions deprived human being living in the worlds most strategically significant sub-continent of Asia. They were incisive, determined and honest but were surrounded by the opportunists, needy, greedy and shoddy influencers. The tension between these two lead to a fiasco where we as nation failed! We failed to adopt rigid economic policies. What we did afterwards is merely an...