Sitemap - 2020 - Spontaneous Order
The Challenge of Taking Street Food Online in a Pandemic
Spontaneous Dialogue Ep 4: The Role of Agri-Businesses in Doubling Farmer Income
Does Property Rights Help Only the Rich and Powerful?
Women won’t recover easily from India’s pandemic
Maternal Mortality Ratio in India: How far have we come?
SO Basically – Episode 16 | “Swasthya, Paisa, and Direct Cash Transfer”
Domestic Violence: A Pandemic in itself?
COVID-19: A Boost for Digital Education in India?
How India saved its mothers with Direct Cash Transfers
SO Musings: Economic Freedom by M.A. Venkata Rao
Spontaneous Dialogue Ep 3: Politics of Education Reform
Loan Waivers Fail to Address Farmers’ Distress in India
Masani, Rajaji and Shenoy — the free-market troika that challenged the Nehruvian State
SO Musings: Should We Alter Our Constitution?
Why an urban job guarantee scheme is a bad idea
How the Social Security Code 2020 fails gig workers
SO Musings: What is Libertarianism?
Air Pollution is helping Covid-19 in Delhi
Cracker Ban: An Overbroad Remedy
SO Musings: Intellectual and Masses
The Cracks in India’s Anti-Bribery Law
Poona Sarvajanik Sabha and Its Liberal Affiliations
SO Musings: What the Voter Should Know – The Historical Origins of Democracy
Spontaneous Dialogue Ep 2: Decoding India’s Onion Crisis
Why a national period leave policy is a bad idea
SO Musings: Full Employment and Monetary Policy
ਫਾਰਮ ਕਾਨੂੰਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਜ਼ਰੀਏ ਹੋਰ ਆਜ਼ਾਦੀ ਅਤੇ ਬਿਹਤਰ ਕੀਮਤਾਂ ਲਿਆਉਣਾ
A Case for Decriminalising Sex work in India
Big Tech Needs Regulation but Govt Action No Solution
SO Basically Episode 15: Contract Farming के फायदे
Land-Use Change for Harnessing Solar Energy in India: Too good to be true?
Spontaneous Dialogue Ep 1: From Annadata to Farmpreneur – Do farm laws benefit farmers?
Service Sector, Metros Dampen Growth Rebound
SO Musings: Liberty And Limited Government
Swatantra Party: A Big Tent Challenge to Congress Hegemony
SO Basically Episode 14: जा Farmer जा: Jee Le Apni Zindagi!
A Free Market Critique of the Agricultural Laws
SO Musings: Bread and Circuses – The Welfare State
Chakravarti Vijayaragavachariar – The Lion from The South!
B R Ambedkar on Justice Ranade, Social Reform, and the failure of Indian Liberalism
SO Dialogue: From Annadata to Farmpreneur – Do farm laws benefit the farmers?
SO Musings: Food Prices and Libertarian Solution
SO Basically Episode 13: Pandemic और Street Vendors की समस्या
SO Musing: The Shetkari Sanghathana and the History of Farmers’ Movements in India
Farm laws to bring more freedom, and better prices
Do the farm bills benefit the farmers?
Badruddin Tyabji: Being a Secular, Liberal Nationalist
India’s Language Conundrum: The Teacher is the Obstacle
SO Musings: Inflation vs. Morality
SO Basically Episode 12: Pandemic और School Fee Waiver की समस्या
How Romanticization of Environment Does More Harm than Good
SO Musings: Our Borders with China
Prof S.Ambirajan’s Thoughts on Development Economics
The Existential Imperative of Education Policy
SO Musings: Land Reform-True and False
Nudging – A tool for liberal policymaking
Indian Agriculture Sector: Time to let the ‘Invisible Hand’ Lead
SO Musings: Bilingualism for India
Harmful Bans and Limited State Capacity: An Agricultural Example
SO Musings: “Monopolist” Can He Charge “Anything He Wants?”
SO Musings: The Myth Of Free Education
Rajaji on Communism and Indian Communists
Why localised lockdowns are a bad idea
Building temples unlikely to pay poll dividends
Food Controls in India: Vestiges of Second World War
SO Musings: Making Democracy Work
Why India needs to tread with caution with ‘Atmanirbharta’ and ‘Vocal for Local’
‘Saare jahan se achha’ is a better economic mantra
A Case Of Flawed And Misogynistic, Abortion Laws In India
Swatantra Party had a lot to say on China after 1962. If only Nehru had heard them
NEP Hits Bull’s Eye By Fixing Regulatory Framework For Schools
SO Musings: Defections And Their Control
Making life easier for small enterprises: An example from Punjab
India, China: ancient civilisations, different paths
Atmanirbharta comes in through knocking on the pandemic door
Minimum educational qualification is no criteria for local body elections
SO Musings: A Dialogue Between Socrates And Lenin
Who is Getting Their Hands Dirty – Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016
Railway Privatisation Needs an Indian Spin
Unboxing the e-Vidya Scheme for Learning
States Should Follow Karnataka in Land Reforms, Opposition is Unfounded
SO Musings: War Between Opposing Ideologies
Road For LGBTQ+ Community In India Is Long And Uphill
Indian Liberals saw through the Chinese game plan in 1950
SO Musings: Swatantra Liberals and Indian Foreign Policy
Venkataraman Sundaram-Scholar, Economist and Civil Servant (1942-2014)
How inclusive is the Smart Cities Mission
Higher fuel taxes, fewer subsidies are good policy
How the Air Corporations Act, 1953, came to haunt Indian aviation
Power sector could do with more autonomy
Dadabhai Naoroji: Social Reforms, Transnational Connections and Statistical Liberalism
S Ambirajan’s forgotten classic `A Grammar of Indian Planning (1959)’
Rescue solvent companies but kill off zombies
SO Musings: The US-India Alignment in Cold War
A Libertarian’s View of the Corona-19 Pandemic
S Ambirajan – the forgotten liberal political economist (1936-2001)
Boycotting Chinese goods: a lose-lose situation
Why Modi Must Not Repeat Nehru’s Mistakes on China
SO Basically- Episode 11 | Mandiyon ki Manmaani
Policy Talks: Dushyant Chautala on MSMEs, Jobs and Migrant Labour
SO Musings: A Democracy at War
SV Chitti Babu, academician, educationist and reformer par excellence (1920-2020)
#DalitLivesMatter: Why We Don’t Care About This Hashtag
Policy Talks: JP Dalal on Haryana’s Agriculture Policy
SO Musings: Rajaji Was Prescient About Electoral Funding
Cho Ramaswamy: India’s classical satirist and liberal, 1934-2016
SO Musings: China’s Tiananmen Massacre
Minoo Masani on the Raison D’être of Swatantra Party
Already in a Mega-Recession, India Needs a Venture Capitalist of Last Resort
Modi has political capital to reform the power sector
SO Musings: De-Stalinisation Versus Communism
Out Of This COVID-19 Disaster Comes Privatisation, And Other Reforms
Cleaner, And Now Cheaper: Solar Power Beats Coal
So Musings: The Perils of State Support
Connected Histories of Rammohan Roy’s Liberalism
The Speech Modi Has Not Made But Should
Forgotten Speeches of GK Sundaram – Part II
Economic Challenges for Sarkaar Post Lockdown
SO Musings: Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
Lockdown’s Lesson on Central Planning – It Doesn’t Work!
An Ode to the Krishi Mandis of India
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
Forgotten Speeches of GK Sundaram – Part I
Alcohol in Times of Coronavirus: The “New Normal”
Lift Restrictions In All Zones By July, And Just Learn To Live With Corona
GA Natesan: Liberal Scholar and Publisher
Shutdowns Kill People And Biz, Ease Them Fast
SO Musings: Soviet Dissidents, Detente and Liberty
Let China Invest, it gets us Foreign Policy Leverage
Supreme Court Warns Against Overzealous Reservations
Mariadas Ruthnaswamy: Liberal Educationalist, Statesman and Writer
Prescription for a Little Dose of Anarchism
Should Govt Punish Use and Possession of Cannabis?
Ease Shutdowns Or We May Get Worst Of Both Worlds
SO Musings: On Civil Liberties and State Coercion
Panchayat: Less Swaraj, More Raj
Are Private Schools Enemies of Quality Education in Delhi?
Should Schools Waive Fees During Lockdown?
SO Musing: The Tiger Caged – Part II
Will Nationalisation of Hospitals help Tackle Corona?
GK Sundaram: Swatantra’s Forgotten Tamil Leader
Relief Package is Peanuts, India Needs to Triple it
SO Musings: India, the Tiger Caged
Migrant Labourers, Lockdown and Game Theory
Covid19: Test, test, test; But How?
Should Supreme Court Live-Stream its Proceedings?
SO Musing: India: Seeing the Future in its Past
Corona Threat Could Spark a Mega Recession
Let People Choose What They Eat
Markets are Leading the Fight Against COVID-19
Why Ruling Party Loves Banning Auto-Ads?
SO Musing: Free Enterprise is Economic Democracy
Banning Commercial Surrogacy & Lives of Surrogate Mothers
Is Indian Justice Truly Blind?
SO Musing: Remembering Dr Ambedkar
Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market
What Should the Role of Government be in Education?
SO Musing: Not a Rich People’s Lobby
For Farmers, is Suicide the Only Way Out?
SO Musings: Minoo Masani on Citizenship
PS Sivaswamy Aiyer: Forgotten Indian Liberal – Part II
PS Sivaswamy Aiyer: Forgotten Indian Liberal – Part I
SO Musings: Caste System, Greatest Curse of India
Population is Not a Threat to India
SO Musings: Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party
No-detention policy is harming students
SO Musings: The Mission of Libertarianism
Doubling farmers’ income the easy way
Local Government and Grassroots Democracy in India
SO Basically – Episode 10 | Angrezon ke Zamane ke Jailer
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is Leaking
Centenary of Liberal Thinker Nani Palkhivala
VS Srinivasa Sastri – Forgotten Liberal Intellectual – Part 2
VS Srinivasa Sastri – Forgotten Liberal Intellectual – Part 1