A short note on India’s hawala trade, capital controls, foreign spending taxes, financial repression, and why informal finance emerges under intrusive government systems.

An essay on India’s withdrawal of the INR 2,000 note, demonetization, bureaucratic confusion, state control, and the arbitrary disruption of ordinary life.

Jayant Bhandari examines wokeism as a symptom of civilizational decay, warning that societies without objective morality, restraint, and justice drift toward barbarism.

Jayant Bhandari examines caste, affirmative action, cancel culture, and the damage caused by ideological social engineering in this article for Liberty.

Jayant Bhandari examines wokeness, affirmative action, and victimhood politics, arguing that grievance destroys dignity, merit, and honor.

In this article for Acting Man, Jayant Bhandari examines China’s post-Covid recovery, East Asia’s institutional competence, and the West’s failures during the pandemic.

In this article for Liberty, Jayant Bhandari examines India’s Covid crisis, its hollowed-out institutions, medical chaos, and the deeper social failures exposed by the pandemic.

Jayant Bhandari examines what Covid revealed about the West and East Asia, including institutional competence, civic morality, self-reliance, discipline, and social trust.