The Libertarian Party of India, launched in Panchkula last year, wants to take a chainsaw to red tape, high taxes, caste politics, and state intrusions on personal freedom.
On 21 April 1975, Godhra MP and founding member of Swatantra Party spoke in the Lok Sabha during a debate on defence expenditure and purchase of arms. 'We have been, especially since the last war with Pakistan, shopping round the world.'
On 25 July 1969 in Lok Sabha, Rajkot MP Minoo Masani listed the economic and political grounds on which his Swatantra Party opposed the Indira Gandhi government's Bill to nationalise private banks.
There is a new wave of a combination of populism, and fiscal irresponsibility, masqueraded as ‘new welfarism’, sweeping through our politics today, writes Vibhav Kavoor.
On bilateral ties, Admiral Paparo said India-US ties have an exponential effect on deterrence, because it demonstrates a unity of purpose among us to maintain the peace.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Libertarianism is the ultimate BS pursued by man-children who haven’t moved past the college Ayn Rand phase. Yes, it is primarily men. This idea of man being an island and “doing it all on his own despite society” is very seductive, but ultimately bogus. These individuals should move beyond labels and understand how the world truly operates.
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Like all good things, this too shall perish. India gets anaphylactic shock at the mention of free market.
Libertarianism is the ultimate BS pursued by man-children who haven’t moved past the college Ayn Rand phase. Yes, it is primarily men. This idea of man being an island and “doing it all on his own despite society” is very seductive, but ultimately bogus. These individuals should move beyond labels and understand how the world truly operates.