Saving India from the Keynesians - Shanmuganathan "Shan" Nagasundaram - Mises Daily

Saving India from the Keynesians - Shanmuganathan "Shan" Nagasundaram - Mises Daily

The guiding aim of society’s all activities

“It is said in the old Indian writings that while in the second age, the age of Power, Vishnu descends as the King, and in the third, the age of compromise and balance, as the legislator or codifier, in the age of the Truth he descends as Yajna, that is to say, as the Master of works and sacrifice manifest in the heart of his creatures. It is this kingdom of God within, the result of the finding of God not in a distant heaven but within ourselves, of which the state of society in an age of the Truth, a spiritual age, would be the result and the external figure. Therefore a society which was even initially spiritualised would make the revealing and finding of the divine Self in man the supreme, even the guiding aim of all its activities, its education, its knowledge, its science, its ethics, its art, its economical and political structure.” – Sri Aurobindo

‘If working for the country is revolt, then let it be’ ... says Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi

Rail Budget 2012 presented, TMC wants to derail it

‘If working for the country is revolt, then let it be’

Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi reacts after being slammed by his own party over fare hike

Lakshmi Iyer and Jayatri Nag

Posted On Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 07:52:52 AM

Deepak Turbhekar Train commuters catch the Rail Budget live on televsion at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai on Wednesday Breaking an 8-year populist trend of staying away from passenger fares, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday proposed an across-the-board hike in rates for rail travel to net Rs 4,000 crore extra in a year. However, moments later, his own party Trinamool Congress slammed the move — that can set off a political crisis in his party as well as the UPA. Addressing a rally in Nandigram, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee said, “I did not have any prior knowledge that the fares were being hiked. We are against inflicting a burden on the common people. We will not allow the fare hike to take effect in the interest of the common people.” Putting a combative face, Trivedi said, “If working for the country is revolt, then let it be.” He said the fare hike was unavoidable as the Centre was not giving adequate budgetary support. “If fares are not hiked, Indian Railways will become sick like Air India. It was getting into the ICU and I have pulled it out,” he said. The minister said the party leadership was not aware of the provisions made in the Railway Budget. “It is a misconception that the Railways is being run from Writers’ Building (office of West Bengal CM).” Trivedi also linked the fare hike to  safety of rail passengers. “I’ve done my duty. If there is a roll back, it would mean compromising rail safety.” Complimenting Trivedi on his first rail budget, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “The Railway Minister has presented a forward-looking budget with emphasis on safety and modernisation of the Indian Railways.” TMC puts Trivedi on notice Sudip Bandopadhyay, TMC leader  said that a delegation of party MPs would meet the PM on Thursday on the issue. “The party would also move cut motion against it. We may propose another name for railway ministry,” he said. Cut motion is a veto power given to Lok Sabha members to oppose a move in a financial bill. This can turn into an effective tool to test the strength of the government. If a cut motion is adopted by the House and the government does not have the numbers, it is obliged to resign. ►  The Shayar rail minister Kandhe jhuk gaye hai Kamar lachak gayi hai Bojha utha utha kar Bechari rail thak gayi hai Rail gadi ko nayi dawa, naya asar chahiye Is safar mein mujhko aapsa humsafar chahiye

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The Cycle of Society

An excerpt from Sri Aurobindo’s book “The Human Cycle”

“MODERN Science, obsessed with the greatness of its physical discoveries and the idea of the sole existence of Matter, has long attempted to base upon physical data even its study of Soul and Mind and of those workings of Nature in man and animal in which a knowledge of psychology is as important as any of the physical sciences. Its very psychology founded itself upon physiology and the scrutiny of the brain and nervous system.
It is not surprising therefore that in history and sociology attention should have been concentrated on the external data, laws, institutions, rites, customs, economic factors and developments, while the deeper psychological elements so important in the activities of a mental, emotional, ideative being like man have been very much neglected.
This kind of science would explain history and social development as much as possible by economic necessity or motive,—by economy understood in its widest sense. There are even historians who deny or put aside as of a very subsidiary importance the working of the idea and the influence of the thinker in the development of human institutions. The French Revolution, it is thought, would have happened just as it did and when it did, by economic necessity, even if Rousseau and Voltaire had never written and the eighteenth-century philosophic movement in the world of thought had never worked out its bold and radical speculations.
Recently, however, the all-sufficiency of Matter to explain Mind and Soul has begun to be doubted and a movement of emancipation from the obsession of physical science has set in, although as yet it has not gone beyond a few awkward and rudimentary stumblings. Still there is the beginning of a perception that behind the economic motives and causes of social and historical development there are profound psychological, even perhaps soul factors; and in pre-war Germany, the metropolis of rationalism and materialism but the home also, for a century and a half, of new thought and original tendencies good and bad, beneficent and disastrous, a first psychological theory of history was conceived and presented by an original intelligence.
The earliest attempts in a new field are seldom entirely successful, and the German historian, originator of this theory, seized on a luminous idea, but was not able to carry it very far or probe very deep. He was still haunted by a sense of the greater importance of the economic factor, and like most European science his theory related, classified and organised phenomena much more successfully than it explained them.
Nevertheless, its basic idea formulated a suggestive and illuminating truth, and it is worth while following up some of the suggestions it opens out in the light especially of Eastern thought and experience. The theorist, Lamprecht, basing himself on European and particularly on German history, supposed that human society progresses through certain distinct psychological stages which he terms respectively symbolic, typal and conventional, individualist and subjective.
This development forms, then, a sort of psychological cycle through which a nation or a civilisation is bound to proceed. Obviously, such classifications are likely to err by rigidity and to substitute a mental straight line for the coils and zigzags of Nature.
The psychology of man and his societies is too complex, too synthetical of many-sided and intermixed tendencies to satisfy any such rigorous and formal analysis. Nor does this theory of a psychological cycle tell us what is the inner meaning of its successive phases or the necessity of their succession or the term and end towards which they are driving.
But still to understand natural laws whether of Mind or Matter it is necessary to analyse their working into its discoverable elements, main constituents, dominant forces, though these may not actually be found anywhere in isolation. I will leave aside the Western thinker’s own dealings with his idea. The suggestive names he has offered us, if we examine their intrinsic sense and value, may yet throw some light on the thickly veiled secret of our historic evolution, and this is the line on which it would be most useful to investigate.”

People-Pressure

Anna is presently our voice, Aam-Aadmi’s voice, our only hope – Lets BE WITH him!!!

2 million of us are required to stir-wake-up the Govt., 20 million to make Govt listen to us and 200 million to make the Govt-servants serve Mother-India.

Numbers are essential to inject ‘Healthy Fear’ in a govt that is deaf and in govt servants who have become insolently insensitive.

Jai Hind.