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  • Big Government

    Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on the size of the Union Government:

    Food, steel, communications, aviation, agriculture, petroleum, renewable energy, shipping, chemicals, tourism, coal, power, science & technology, broadcasting, textiles, mining, and housing. These are not just some of the fast-growing sectors in the Indian economy, but also the names of Union government ministries.
    Each has its own budget, its own minister, and often a junior minister too. More importantly, in a narrow bid to protect its turf, every ministry becomes the biggest impediment to reform in that sector. Worse, government-granted monopolies in key sectors such as rail transport and coal mining are an unseen but substantial drag on the growth of the economy.
    More here.

     

  • The Connected Mind

    Chance favors the connected mind.

    – Steven Johnson

  • The American Way

    Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

    – Winston Churchill

  • Affection, Master Of Passion

    Affection, master of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

    – William Shakespeare

  • Nature Cannot Be Fooled

    For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

    – Richard Feynman

  • Veni Vidi Vici

    Veni, vidi, vici.

    – Julius Caesar

  • The Very Best

    I am easily satisfied with the very best.

    – Winston Churchill

  • Consensus In Politics

    To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

    – Margaret Thatcher

  • Free Speech

    I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to death your right to say it.

    – Voltaire