Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2020

Can India Afford Universal Basic Income?

Universal Basic Income has been a buzzword the world over for some time now. India, world’s largest democracy, floated the idea of a Universal Basic Income for all its citizens on October 2, 2016, that too, regardless of their employment status.  It was a big surprise for a country whose close to 30% population lives below the poverty line, where basic health services and education are still to be strengthened, triggering curiosity and   doubts over how and whether the provisions of its funding it prepared to bear the additional burden?   The reasons are many.  Currently, the earnings of the government through taxation and other revenue sources are used to fund the services of the government and its other welfare schemes. A Universal Income may relieve the government from service delivery, providing people with the money only to access those services. It may ensure the economic liberty of the individuals while ensuring equitable distribution of wealth.  Above all

This Book By An Indian Writer Has No Dialogues But All The Potential Of A Bestseller In 2021!

'The Gods Have Vanished!' Is The Only Indian Fiction Without Dialogues After 'The White Panther'. This Book May Go Viral In These Times of Worldwide Pandemic  And Change Your Outlook! The Gods Have Vanished! Published By  Notion Press Is Now Available Worldwide On Amazon. Book Cover Compiling  a list of 100  books  here, that need to be read in your lifetime?  Can this ever do justice to any debut author having a compelling reason to tell a story. Never!  Being an Indian fiction writer with an altogether different outlook, I am not the one in league with those self-professed writers who call their own work as the bestseller.  I wrote 'The Gods Have Vanished!' without dialogues, without having to adopt nefarious designs to quickly hop over that proverbial and blatant bandwagon of Indian writers, overnight.  I did not search for bestseller genre statistics before putting pen to paper.  I neither had, nor I ever tried to set aside an impressive budget for a well-d