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@vampyrbladez sirji I was talking about nuclear power plants, not nuclear bombs. The bomb detonation offer from Kennedy was a negotiating bluff, just to test your intention to see whether you are itching to build a bomb or not. In that instance, Nehru was right to deny it. Even Vajpayee got an...

Right. That's exactly what I'm saying. These schemes had earlier come under fire from RW folks labeling them as socialist doles. These are no doles. Get the citizen to pay for his own health cover. The gormint must only play the role of a facilitator of monthly premium deductions (like the tax...

Community subsidized health care doesn't have to be subsidized by the government/tax-payer money. It could be a group insurance scheme whose premium is paid for by the person himself. It's just that pooling the resources makes it cheaper. The gormint's role must be just to make it mandatory for...

One thing I find good about him is the nuclear policy. Given the kind of person that he was, it would have been very easy for him not to pursue nuclear energy, and his White masters would have surely known that India was working on nuclear reactors. Despite that, he pressed on, instead of cowing...

The point about translating income into wellbeing is that in the West everything costs money, because they have broken down the support system of the family, so it's "each man for himself" and they need an X money/per person/ per day type of evaluation. Here in India, it's more like X money/ per...

Check this out. This nigga explains how evaluating poverty levels in terms of $/day income does not paint an accurate picture. https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-most-people-dont-know-about-Africa/answer/Innocent-Masengo

Almost no standardized HDI metric will fit the mold of India. I hope there is an Indian metric that is not foreign currency based. This "X$ per day income"/ PPP wala metric is a trap. We have reached 100% last mile connectivity for taking power lines to villages in these last 3 years (even...

Is there an objective list of things you are using to define living standards? (X hours of electricity/ water/ crime rate/ jobs etc)? How do we keep track of the progress we are making?

We're moving away from the kind of economy that needs a lot of people to sustain. When one produces high ticket items, they don't need a lot of people. In the 60's, more kids = more hands to work in low quality menial jobs = more income. In the future, less kids doing high quality jobs = higher...