Originally published at Mises Canada, this article discusses Komal Ganatra, arranged marriage, dowry, UPSC, Indian bureaucracy, and the vicious cycle created by superstition, gullibility, and the absence of critical thinking.
In this Casey Research article introduced by Dan Steinhart, I discuss India’s investment prospects, corruption, culture, infrastructure, weak institutions, and whether rising expectations can eventually force change.
In this Liberty Unbound article, I discuss the 2012 Delhi gang rape, the protests that followed, and what the episode revealed about violence, apathy, due process, feminism, and the deeper cultural decay in India.
In this Dollar Vigilante article, I discuss America’s disappearing moral underpinning through my experience with US immigration, TSA, airport security, bureaucratic arrogance, and the growing acceptance of statism.
In this Libertopia 2013 presentation, recorded thanks to Tony Woodward, I discuss critical thinking, freedom, India, collectivism, cultural decay, and whether the West is slowly becoming another India.
In this Liberty Unbound article, I discuss China’s rapid progress, the difference between democracy and freedom, the civilizing effect of commerce, and the contradictions of Chinese society.
In this Liberty Unbound article, I use asset-backed commercial paper as an example of how distorted incentives, socialized costs, regulation, and the loss of self-responsibility corrupt Western society.
In this Mises Canada article, I discuss Indian immigrants, culture, Obama, voting patterns, tribalism, the nanny state, individualism, and how imported cultural assumptions can affect American politics.
In this Liberty Unbound article, I discuss my visit to North Korea, its perfected tyranny, propaganda, lack of private property and freedom, and why the country also serves as a mirror for the West.
In this Liberty Unbound article, I use the broken road outside my parents’ house in Bhopal as a picture of India’s corruption, socialism, bureaucracy, externalized costs, and deteriorating social morals.