My Paid Protectors
Violent conduct on the part of policemen is a common malice. However the question to be asked is, ‘Why do I pay these people to beat me up?’
Sweat Shops
Amongst the anti-capitalist images generated by Marxists, is the image of a sweat shop full of children working hard on shoes for a big corporation like Nike. Their argument against the sweat-shop is plain; it is torture of children for the sake of large-scale profits.
Citizen and State
China has come to be synonymous with words like communism and state control. The image of China is irrevocably one of a state with complete control over its citizens. And because of this overriding power of state the image of the country is, to a large extent the image of the State.
The Commonwealth Games
It must have struck some of you; the way the media, in the middle of the commonwealth games, seemed to change its very acrimonious stance towards the government. The games went very quickly from being shame of the nation to being a cause for patriotic pride.
Construction Sight
The sight of Delhi is now the construction site. With the government scurrying around to pull off the city’s miraculous face-lift in time for the Commonwealth Games, the city has become an accumulation of construction material.
The Military Industrial Complex
The US deployment of troops in Afghanistan has raised much ironic press against Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama. It has also brought back speculation with regards to the US defense budget, specifically money allocated to private production of defense equipment and the supply of this
Communism
“The demise of communism has led to the realization that it never was, is no longer and will never be a viable economic system.”
Kasab and Tackling Crime & Terrorism
An overwhelming majority of people supported the death sentence for Kasab. More importantly an overwhelming majority of those who were his victims (obviously relatives of those he killed) wanted him executed.
Kasab and Tackling Crime & Terrorism
An overwhelming majority of people supported the death sentence for Kasab. More importantly an overwhelming majority of those who were his victims (obviously relatives of those he killed) wanted him executed.
Rakesh Wadhwa. Ever since, I was a school boy, I knew India was on the wrong path. Socialism was just not what we needed to get ahead. Government controlled our travel; government controlled our ability to buy and sell; and government controlled our freedom to move our money. My life has focused on the inherent rights people have. When I was in college, I never understood, what the governments meant by their "socialistic attitude". If people are free to buy, sell and move their capital themselves without any restrictions by state, then the welfare of people is inevitable & hence the countries they live in will become wealthy. The government has no right whatsoever, to point a finger at me or my business. I am not a revolutionary. I just want to light up my cigarette and not get nagged about it. I believe in non-interfering attitude to attain more. 
The Bastiat Award is a journalism award, given annually by the International Policy Network, London. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used and the type of publication in which they appear. Rakesh Wadhwa won the 3rd prize (a cash award of $1,000 and a candlestick), in 2006.
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