TERRORISM
“Let the ownership of banks, industry and trade remain in private hands. Let us thrive by eliminating controls and taxes. Under these circumstances we would not readily take to arms. People in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan are not interested in dying for a cause. They are busy, very busy in making money and enjoying the benefits of a capitalist system. There are simply no unemployed people waiting in the wings to take up arms. It is people in India, Srilanka, former USSR, Palestine, Yugoslavia, Africa who are more likely to have a cause or invent one.”
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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