Jayant Bhandari

In this March 2007 Liberty Magazine article, I argue that oppressive governments arise from deeper cultural habits of coercion, hierarchy, and collectivism.

In the second of two dispatches from India, I examine the Bhopal compensation system, state corruption, economic growth, Kashmir, and terrorism.

In the first of two dispatches from India, I examine Bhopal, speculative property and stock prices, persistent poverty, and the deeper weaknesses beneath India’s supposed economic boom.

Writing from Bhopal, I examine India’s declining infrastructure, speculative property and stock markets, persistent poverty, and the emergence of a more rights-conscious entrepreneurial class.

I examine the Celebrity Big Brother controversy involving Shilpa Shetty and ask whether Britain’s accusers are overlooking the deeper prejudice embedded in Indian society.

I examine sati, santhara, dowry, and other Indian social practices, arguing that lasting cultural change cannot be imposed through state coercion.

I examine how affirmative action, legal privileges, and government social engineering can deepen caste divisions instead of dismantling them.

In this September 2006 Liberty Magazine reflection, I examine how institutional charity can become detached from the people it supposedly exists to help.

In this September 2006 Liberty Magazine reflection, I argue that terrorism directed at the West has deeper cultural causes than Western foreign policy.

In this September 2006 Liberty Magazine reflection, I recount my treatment at Western embassies in India and explain why Canadian citizenship still represents a form of warped freedom.