Interesting readings

Great insights into India's breakdown of governance,
from N. Sundaresha
Subramanian in the Business Standard.



Jeff Glekin and Hugo Dixon have a great
three-part rumination
about India. Also
see Jeff
Glekin
and Shaji
Vikraman on the ruckus at UTI.



Cullen
Murphy has a great article about the Inquisition. His story is
a troubling one for us in India, where we are at the point of
transition from persecution by thugs to persecution by competent
organisations.





At
the crossroads, an article on education by me in the
February issue of Pragati. Also see here.



Pratap
Bhanu Mehta and Ila Patnaik, in the Indian
Express, on the UID controversy.



Do
away with surfeit of financial regulators to make the financial
sector better, in the Economic Times. (This was by Shaji Vikraman.)



Ila
Patnaik on the best contribution that RBI can make for high
Indian GDP growth. And by her, see: capital
controls are no way to try to block rupee depreciation
[link].



Ila
Patnaik on the subject of how the Eurozone crisis changes our
thinking about achieving bank safety by stuffing banks with
government bonds.



SEBI
turns heat on USE, by Palak Shah in the Business
Standard. Equity
licence: MCX-SX faces fresh hurdle by Pramit Bhattacharya
in the Mint, which was followed
by The
question of motive by the editor, R. Sukumar,
of Mint.





Sino-Americana
by Perry Anderson, in the London Review of Books. You might
like to also
read The
undersupply of criticism by me.





How
your cat is making you crazy by Kathleen Mcauliffe in
the Atlantic, and a great
video
of an interview with Robert Sapolsky.



Wikipedia
has serious problems, an article in the Chronicle
Review by Timothy Messer-Kruse. My experiences have also been
similar; I've given up on fixing errors in Wikipedia because
people generally undo the work later on.