Jayant Bhandari examines India’s Covid lockdown and the suffering it imposed on migrant workers, daily-wage laborers, and the poor, exposing institutional failure and social cruelty.

Jayant Bhandari examines the early days of Covid in India and what the crisis revealed about superstition, institutional dysfunction, public-health failure, and social disorder.

Jayant Bhandari examines whether the United States should remain the world’s policeman, and what American power, intervention, democracy, and Western influence mean for the Third World.

Jayant Bhandari examines democracy as a destructive political incentive system, especially in the Third World, where tribalism, envy, and mass sentiment often weaken civilization.

Jayant Bhandari discusses why geopolitical chaos can create opportunity in junior mining and exploration stocks, where disciplined investors can find value amid risk and mispricing.

Jayant Bhandari examines Hong Kong’s protests, China’s pressure, Xi Jinping’s political miscalculations, and why Hong Kong is unlikely to return to what it once was.

Jayant Bhandari examines racism in America, immigration, multiculturalism, identity politics, assimilation, and the danger of turning grievance into a political weapon.

Jayant Bhandari examines what rational Indian savers should do in a society marked by weak institutions, poor investment returns, overvalued assets, and political disorder.

Jayant Bhandari warns investors to be cautious when mining companies drift into commodity speculation instead of focusing on projects, discipline, and shareholder value.

In this article for Doug Casey’s International Man, Jayant Bhandari examines India’s institutional decline, political decay, and the hollowing out of its inherited structures.