Digital India: Pain for No Gain
I write for Liberty Unbound about India’s push toward a cashless economy and why forced digitalization creates more hardship than progress.
I write for Liberty Unbound about India’s push toward a cashless economy and why forced digitalization creates more hardship than progress.
I write for Acting Man about India’s attempt to go digital, the continuing damage from demonetization, and why forced cashless payments will impose pain for no gain.
I write for Acting Man about Kashmir, India’s demonetization crisis, rising nationalism, lawlessness, and why the country’s deeper fractures are becoming harder to ignore.
I write for Acting Man about India’s rapid degradation after demonetization and why its institutional decay, rising nationalism, and social tensions increasingly resemble Pakistan’s trajectory.
I write for Acting Man about India’s demonetization crisis, dubious GDP statistics, and why the claim that India remains the fastest-growing large economy is misleading.
I write for Liberty Unbound about Canada’s Motion 103 and why accusations of fear, hatred, or Islamophobia must not be used to restrict honest discussion.
I write for Acting Man about India’s claim to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy and why the optimistic growth narrative fails under closer scrutiny.
I speak with Brian Leni of Junior Stock Review about India’s currency ban and the deeper cultural, institutional, and political problems exposed by demonetization.
I write for Acting Man about India’s continuing descent after demonetization and why the currency ban has exposed deeper cultural, institutional, and political problems.
In this Acting-Man article, I continue my analysis of India’s demonetization and explain why Modi’s war on cash is increasing state power, damaging the informal economy, and exposing India’s institutional decay.