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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XI No.7

BOARD OF ADVISORS T he capacity of the people of this country to endure suffering and of-
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Anand ficial ineptitude is matched by a analytical skills deficit and chronic
Sudarshan (Bangalore); Dr. F.C. Kohli, Mala incapability to derive logical conclusions. How else can one explain
Ramadorai, Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, India’s sustained love affair with Soviet-style socialism which has
Kirit Mehta (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); collapsed in its country of origin and around the world?
Dr. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Jawaharlal Nehru, post-independence India’s first well-intentioned but
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia totally delusional prime minister, endowed the nation with a toxic legacy of
(Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); neta- b ab u socialism perpetuated and consolidated by his daughter Indira
Shyama akore (London) Gandhi and her son Rajiv, all prime ministers and leaders of the Congress

party which has intermittently ruled at the Centre and in most states of the
EDITOR Indian Union for over 50 years. Despite overwhelming evidence indicating this
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inorganic development model wasn’t working, the people of India, includ-
MANAGING EDITOR ing the academy and the intelligentsia, repeatedly elected the Congress party
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which rubbished free enterprise and the native spirit of entrepreneurship to
CHIEF SUB EDITOR power, ignoring the historical reality that for a millennium before conquest of
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Paromita Sengupta, Jeswant J.M, Gopi Chand N, the sub-continent by British imperialism in the mid-18th century, our mer-
Akhila Damodaran (Bangalore), Autar Nehru chants and traders had developed ancient India into the world’s wealthiest and
(Delhi) 9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) most prosperous region.
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) Although somewhat belatedly Congress prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao
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discerned the damage caused to the economy and substantially dismantled the
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Ajay Kumar: 9108225694/ (independent) and estimated 400,000 budget private schools which provide
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