Good and evil

This Sunday Swapan Dasgupta had an interesting piece in the STOI wherein he analyzed the Ramayana- Yet, the Ramayana tells a tale of Kumbhakarna’s wisdom. On two different occasions, he berated Ravana for “‘neglecting good counsel” and told him bluntly “you have soon to reap the consequences of your wicked deed of abducting another’s wife.” [...]

“L” for …

An interesting interview at Reason with a fellow named Greg Gutfeld- I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing. [...]

Evans

This article in the Guardian by Anthony Evans, thanks to the Mises blog, is a must read. His suggestions- Legalise insider trading. Repeal legal tender laws. Eradicate crony capitalism. Obviously these suggestions have driven most commentators mad. They think its an April Fool’s Day joke. Therefore, the comments are an even better read with Evans [...]

The poor little rich man

Churumuri has a passable post on the current “austerity drive” of the government—millionaires behaving as if they are paupers. Its there that I discovered something Sarojini Naidu one said (exclaimed really) about Mahatma Gandhi- Gandhiji does not know how much it costs us to keep him poor.

“A million years is a lot longer than we think it is”

From Ars Technica- Evolution may take time, but there has been a lot more time available than most of us fully appreciate. The major evolutionary transitions, which took place over millions of years or more, still account for a tiny fraction of the history of life on earth. Most of us kind of know that, [...]