Reinforcing the Foundations of Misery: Part-II : India After Nehru (Volume 2)

(Excerpts: Pages 1 to 10) Foundations of Misery-I dealt with the blunders of the Nehruvian era, many of which still affect and vitiate India’s present. Reinforcing the Foundations of Misery-II deals with India after Nehru. However, it includes a chapter “Mental Slavery” the contents of which span both the periods. The word “Reinforcing” is used, because the Indira-Dynasty reinforced the foundations of India’s misery by compounding the blunders of the Nehruvian era. Part-reversal of those world’s-worst-economic-practices by the wise non-Dynasts like Narsimha Rao and Vajpayee dramatically turned hopelessness into hope. However, with the return of the Dynasts as UPA-I and II and their rollback to the bad-old-ways, Rao-Vajpayee kindled sunshine of hope again turned into gray cynical hopelessness. It is hoped Modi would usher a new era helping India emerge from its misery and propelling it forward into the ranks of the prosperous first-world. In the last chapter, the book deals with assorted interesting current issues on India and seeks to answer many of the FAQs (frequently asked questions) on India. The book establishes: “Had India embraced Competitive Capitalism after independence, rather than the successful-in-no-country poverty-perpetuating socialistic claptrap, India would have been a more firmly united, prosperous, first-rate, first-world country like Singapore, South Korea, Australia by 1980.”