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Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

May 31, 2018

Free Market Capitalism vs. Crony Capitalism

The following is a short excerpt from ‘The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You”, a series of essays on political economics. In the excerpt, the essayist differentiates between the terms “crony capitalism” and “free market…

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

May 28, 2018

India Has The Highest Number Of Internet Shutdowns In The World

In 2018, India has already had 43 Internet shutdowns, as compared to 70 shutdowns worldwide that happened throughout 2017. Over the last few years, India has had the most number of shutdowns in the world, five times as…

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

May 18, 2018

State Governors: Why Do We Need Them?

A product of the colonial legacy, the position of the State Governor, for all its apparent importance, remains in truth an office that holds no value to the people of India. Why, then, does it still exist?

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

May 9, 2018

No Outside Food Allowed!

In the following article, Vineet Bhalla comments on the recent PIL filed in the Bombay High Court, against the cinema halls’ right to bar customers from bringing outside food into the premises. Taking a market liberal perspective, he emphasises that the status quo must be maintained…

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Mar 14, 2018

Why We Need A Swatantra Party in Present Day India

Advocating for limited government and protection of individual liberty, Rajaji founded the Swatantra Party in 1959- providing an alternative to the socialist regime dominating the poitical theatre at the time. In this article, Sadaf Hussain…

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Feb 28, 2018

The Generality Principle

Stressing on the crucial need to distinguish between the individual and the community, Parth Shah takes on a libertarian view of the uniform civil code and lays emphasis on Hayek’s “generality principle”. The article, published originally in Swarajya Magazine (2016), maintain its…

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Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Feb 28, 2018

Movement Towards Swatantra: The Life and Times of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

‘Opportunistic’, ‘conservative’, a man of the dark dingy Zamindari ages- these were some of the accusations painted by Rajaji’s opponents as he tread the involuted path of liberty. However, the…

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Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Feb 26, 2018

Chutney on a Leaf: The Life and Times of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (I)

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Feb 23, 2018

Musings: Voltaire On Trade

The following is an excerpt from Voltaire’s essay “On Trade” from Letters Concerning the English Nation, a key work from the Enlightenment period. Known for his sharp wit, the observations of the satirical polemicist are just as provocative and relevant in the 21st century as they…

Centre for Civil Society in Spontaneous Order

Feb 14, 2018

Transparency of Rights Act: Good Governance and Civil Society

The quest for transparent governance is all but a novelty in India. In its seven decades of independence, it is safe to conclude that the web of bureaucratic entanglement has morphed into a Gordian knot for the ‘Common Man’…