Youth, India and Corruption

I believe it was Marx that said in his terse but elegant thesis on Feuerbach, “The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of changed circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that the educator must himself be educated.” It is through this prism that I will attempt to analyze the current and future role of young generation of my country, India, against the omnipresent and fiercely nuanced specters of corruption.

Wittgenstein and Policy Making

"The limit of  my language are the limits of my world" -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Profound and impressionable were the words Ludwig Wittgenstein used to write. Profound, impressionable.....and overarching. It may or may not be a slight stretch to call the above quote a Wittgenstein's unified thesis of everything human. However, one thing is certain, the above quote has a lot to offer by way of policy making.

If one takes the above statement to its logical conclusion and applies it to policy making, the person may find that the key to a successful new policy has 2 important characteristics:

a) It attempts to change the existing language of the people.

and/or

b) It attempts to reflect the already changed language of the people.

X Men and Radical Face of Civil Rights Movement - Magneto and Malcolm X

There is always a grey area that moral figures delve in between. Malcolm X and Magneto were two such figures. The similarity between the two personalities becomes apparent at first glance. Both were fostered at a young age after losing their loved ones to bigotry. Both fought for the cause of their people (blacks and mutants), and both, depending on point of view that was held were either ostracized or seen as liberators. However, this only begins to scratch the surface of their characters.

Analysis of Automobile Industry FDI Policy of BRIC Nations

Building up on the previous post of how FDI policies are formulated, here I have analyzed the automobile industry policy of BRIC nations with regards to FDI.

A Look Into FDI Policy Models

The issue of policy making for FDI is seen as a very challenging task. This is especially true in context of BRIC nations, most of who were forced into paradigm shifts from import substitution to liberalization rather than natural adoption of it. Be it the fall of the Soviet Empire, the Indian and Brazilian economic crisis of 1980s and 90s or the reforms undertaken by Deng Xiaoping to correct the economic malfeasance that riddled China, the 4 emerging economies were coerced into changes.

A Letter from Wittgenstein to Economist Piero Sraffa

Dear Sraffa,

The following are some remarks I've put down on the topic of our last conversation. I hope they won't be too disconnected and that you'll read them to the end.

You said, "The Austrians can do most of things the Germans did." I say, How do you know? What circumstances are you taking into account if you say they can? "This man, Austria, can remove the wedding ring from his finger." True, it's not too heavy and doesn't stick to his finger. But he may be ashamed of doing it, hiw wife may not allow it, etc.

My Time at Transparency International India

During the course of the first week I became familiar with the Transparency International India work environment. After constant dialectic with my directors I was able to understand good governance and corruption in a clearer light. The reading materials such as the Anti-Corruption reports, the IP Pact reports and reports from Transparency International Nepal and Bulgaria acted as a prism into understanding the need for garnering political activism and ethics based governance as a basis for an ideal society.