Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy

  • Introduction and Some Biography
  • Science, Religion, Art & the Necessity of Freedom (2004)
  • Books, Public Lectures, Memoranda, Memoirs

    • Introduction and Some Biography
      • My American years: Part One 1980-90: battles for academic integrity & freedom
      • Philosophy of Economics: On the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry (1989)
      • Pricing, Planning & Politics: A Study of Economic Distortions in India (1984)
      • Rajiv Gandhi and the Origins of India’s 1991 Economic Reform
      • Three Memoranda to Rajiv Gandhi 1990-1991
    • Science, Religion, Art & the Necessity of Freedom (2004)
      • A General Theory of Globalization & Modern Terrorism (2001)
  • Some Highlighted Articles

    • The Indian Revolution
    • In international law, Pakistan has been the perpetrator, India the victim of aggression in Mumbai
    • Jews have never been killed in India for being Jews until this sad day
    • Two (and a half) critical reforms for America’s polity
    • Do President-elect Obama’s Pakistan specialists suppose Maulana Azad, Dr Zakir Hussain, Sheikh Abdullah were Pakistanis (or that Sheikh Mujib wanted to remain one)?
    • Of a new New Delhi myth and the success of the University of Hawaii 1986-1992 Pakistan project
    • Neglecting technological progress was the basis of my pessimism about Chandrayaan
    • My American years Part One 1980-90: battles for academic integrity & freedom
    • Protected: Become a US Supreme Court Justice! (Explorations in the Rule of Law in America)
    • Become a US Supreme Court Justice! (Explorations in the Rule of Law in America) Preface
    • One tiny prediction about the Obama Administration
    • America’s divided economists
    • Complete History of Mankind’s Moon Missions: An Indian Citizen’s Letter to ISRO’s Chairman
    • Excuse me, but ISRO’s self-congratulation is absurdly premature!
    • My Subjective Probabilities on India’s Moon Mission
  • Categories

    • 1962 War
    • Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    • Academic freedom
    • Adam Smith
    • Aesthetics
    • Afghanistan
    • Air warfare
    • Akbar
    • Aksai Chin
    • Alan Greenspan
    • Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
    • Alfred Marshall
    • Amartya Sen
    • America's housing market
    • America's mortgage crisis
    • American academia
    • American democracy
    • American financial crises
    • American politics
    • anarchy and governance
    • Andre Malraux
    • Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
    • Anglo-American relations
    • Anglo-Russian Treaty 1907
    • Anna Schwartz
    • Annie Besant
    • April Glaspie
    • Arabs
    • Archer Blood
    • Aristotle
    • Art
    • Asia and Latin America
    • Asia and the West
    • Assam
    • Atal Behari Vajpayee
    • Attlee
    • Babar
    • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    • Balochistan
    • Bangladesh
    • Bangladesh currency history
    • Bangladesh's economy
    • Banking
    • Barack Obama
    • BBC
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    • Benazir Bhutto
    • Bengal
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    • Bengal Legislative Council
    • Bengal Primary Education Bill 1919
    • Bengali modern literature
    • Bengali poetry
    • Benjamin Strong
    • Bertrand Russell
    • Bhagavad Gita
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    • Einstein
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    • Great Tremor of 2008
    • Gregory Bateson
    • Growth rates (economic)
    • Gujarat
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    • Haileybury College
    • Hannah Arendt
    • Harriet Tubman
    • Harry Johnson
    • Harvard University
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    • Hazel Atlas 322 US 238
    • Hillary Clinton
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    • India's 1991 Economic Reform
    • India's agriculture
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    • India's Foreign Policy
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    • India's Government Budget Constraint
    • India's Government Expenditure
    • India's grassroots activists
    • India's Health/Medicine
    • India's History
    • India's independence
    • India's Industry
    • India's inflation
    • India's Judiciary
    • India's Jurisprudence
    • India's Labour Markets
    • India's Land
    • India's Lok Sabha
    • India's Macroeconomics
    • India's Military Defence
    • India's Monetary & Fiscal Policy
    • India's Moon mission
    • India's Nationalism
    • India's Panchayat local democracy
    • India's Parliament
    • India's Partition
    • India's peasants
    • India's Personality Cults
    • India's Philosophy
    • India's Politics
    • India's Polity
    • India's Presidency
    • India's Public Finance
    • India's Rajya Sabha
    • India's Reserve Bank
    • India's Revolution
    • India's secularism
    • India's Space Programme
    • India's sports
    • India's State Finances
    • India's Supreme Court
    • India's Union-State relations
    • India-China relations
    • India-Pakistan peace process
    • India-Tibet Border
    • India-United States business
    • India-US Nuclear Deal
    • India-USA interests
    • India-USA Merchandise Trade
    • Indian National Congress Origins
    • IndiaSeminar Yahoo Group
    • Indira Gandhi
    • Inflation
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    • Interest group politics
    • Interest rates
    • International cricket
    • International diplomacy
    • International economics
    • International immigration
    • International Law
    • International monetary economics
    • International politics
    • Introduction and Contents
    • Iqbal
    • Iran
    • Iraq war
    • Irving Fisher
    • Islam
    • Israel
    • ISRO
    • Jagadish Chandra Bose
    • Jahangir
    • Jainism
    • James M Buchanan
    • Jammu & Kashmir
    • Japan
    • Jawaharlal Nehru
    • Jews in India
    • Jimmy Carter
    • JM Keynes
    • John Hicks
    • John Locke
    • John McCain
    • John Stuart Mill
    • John Wisdom
    • Judaism
    • Jurisprudence
    • Just war
    • Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
    • Kanchenjunga
    • Karakorum Pass
    • Karl Georg Zinn
    • Karl Popper
    • Kashgar
    • Kazakhstan
    • Kenneth Arrow
    • Kesavananda Bharati
    • Knowledge and Scepticism
    • Knut Wicksell
    • Korea
    • KPS Menon
    • Kuomintang
    • Kutusov
    • Laddakh
    • Lahore Resolution
    • Lal Bahadur Shastri
    • Land and political economy
    • Latin America
    • Law
    • Law of marriage
    • Leaf World
    • Lech Walesa
    • Lehman Brothers crisis
    • Letters of DH Lawrence
    • Liberalism/Libertarianism
    • Life and death
    • Literary Criticism
    • Literature
    • Lloyd Mints
    • London School of Economics
    • Love
    • Ludwig Erhardt
    • Ludwig Wittgenstein
    • Lying
    • MA Jinnah
    • Macroeconomics
    • Maharashtra
    • Mamata Banerjee
    • Manchu and Mongol Tartars
    • Manchuria
    • Mandamus
    • Manindranath Roy
    • Manmohan Singh
    • Mao Zedong
    • Margaret Thatcher
    • Margaret Thatcher's Revolution
    • Martin Buber
    • Martin Kaempchen
    • Martin Luther King Jr
    • Marx and Engels
    • Masryk
    • Master and Servant Law
    • Mathematical Economics
    • Maulana Azad
    • Max Black
    • Medha Patkar
    • Median Voter
    • Men and women
    • Mendacity
    • Mendacity in politics
    • Metaphysics (Ontology)
    • Michio Morishima
    • Microeconomics
    • Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
    • Milton Friedman
    • Mind
    • Minoo Masani
    • MK Gandhi
    • Mob violence and behaviour
    • Mohammad Reza Shah Pehlavi
    • Monetary Theory
    • Money and banking
    • Mongolia
    • Montesquieu
    • Mountains and trekking
    • Mujibur Rahman
    • Mumbai massacres
    • Mumbai/Bombay
    • Muslim and Hindu communalism
    • Nani Palkhivala
    • Napoleon
    • Nariman House massacre
    • NASA
    • Nationalism
    • Native Americans
    • Natural Justice
    • Nawaz Sharif
    • NEFA Arunachal
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Nepal
    • New Delhi
    • New York Stock Exchange
    • Nikita Kruschev
    • Nobel Prizes
    • Nominalism and Realism
    • Non-Resident Indians
    • Nuclear conflict
    • Nuclear energy
    • Nuksaan Faida Analysis
    • Obama Administration
    • Occidentalists
    • October 1929 New York Stock Market Crash
    • Open and Closed Societies
    • Orientalists
    • Osama bin Laden
    • Ottawa 1958
    • Pakistan's currency history
    • Pakistan's economy
    • Pakistan's exports
    • Pakistan's history
    • Pakistan's Lal Masjid
    • Pakistan's nuclear weapons
    • Pakistan's politics
    • Pakistan, Balochistan, Afghanistan, Iran
    • Palestine
    • Pashtuns
    • Patriarchy
    • Patrick Geddes
    • Patrick Minford
    • PC Mahalanobis
    • Pericles
    • Perjury & Bribery in US Federal Court
    • Persia
    • Personality Cults
    • Pervez Hoodbhoy
    • Pervez Musharraf
    • Peter Bauer
    • Petroleum
    • Philip Cagan
    • Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Economics
    • Phoenix by DH Lawrence
    • Physics
    • Plato
    • Poetry
    • Political corruption
    • Political cynicism
    • Political Economy
    • Political mendacity
    • Political Philosophy
    • Politics
    • Positive-Normative Distinction
    • Prayer
    • Press and Media
    • Probability
    • Professional sports
    • Psychology
    • Public Choice/Public Finance
    • Public property waste fraud
    • QD Leavis
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Racism
    • Radio
    • Rai Bahadur Umbik Churn Rai
    • Rajendra Prasad
    • Rajiv Gandhi
    • Rajiv Gandhi's assassination
    • Rajiv Gandhi's family
    • Ram Janambhoomi
    • Ranjit Singh
    • Reason
    • Regional cooperation
    • Religion
    • Renford Bambrough
    • RF Harrod
    • Richard Nixon
    • Robert Nozick
    • Rodin
    • Roman Law
    • Ron Paul
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Roy vs University of Hawaii
    • Roys of Behala
    • Rule of Law
    • Russia
    • Saddam
    • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya
    • Scepticism and Dogmatism
    • Schizophrenia in international relations
    • Science
    • Science, Religion, Literature
    • SCOTUS
    • Sculpture
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    • September 11 attacks
    • Serendipity and international relations
    • Sheikh Abdullah
    • Shyama Prosad Mukherjee
    • Siachen Glacier
    • Siberia
    • Siddhartha Shankar Ray
    • Sidney Alexander
    • Sidney Hook
    • Sigmund Freud
    • Sikhs
    • Sikkim
    • Sindhis
    • Singur and Nandigram
    • Sinkiang
    • Sino-Indian Border
    • Sir Barnes Peacock
    • Sir Henry Cotton 1845-1915
    • Socrates
    • Solving America's financial crisis
    • Sonia Gandhi
    • Soraiya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
    • Space explorations
    • Sports
    • Sri Lanka
    • Sri Lanka's currency history
    • Sri Lanka's economy
    • Srinagar
    • St Paul's Darjeeling
    • Stalin
    • State of Hawaii
    • Stonewalling in politics
    • Submarine warfare
    • Sudeten Germans
    • Sukhamoy Chakravarty
    • Sun Yatsen
    • Sunnis and Shias
    • Surendranath Roy
    • Swaraj Party
    • Sydenham
    • Tadjikistan
    • Taiwan
    • Tara Chand
    • TE Lawrence
    • Technological progress
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    • Terence Hutchison
    • The Statesman
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    • Theodore W Schultz
    • Thomas Carlyle
    • Thomas Sowell
    • Tiananmen Square protests
    • Tibet
    • Tolstoy
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    • UN/League of Nations
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    • US monetary policy
    • US Pakistan policy
    • US Presidential Election
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    • USA Rule of Law
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    • USSR
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    • Uttar Pradesh
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    • Vallabhbhai Patel
    • Vietnam War
    • Virgnia Tech
    • Wall Street financial crises
    • Walter Bagehot
    • War
    • Wei Jingsheng
    • Welfare Economics
    • Winston Churchill
    • Women
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Wordpress.com
    • World economy
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    • World Trade and Payments
    • World War
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