06 August 2022

Atma Shakti Nirbhar Bharat

Atma Nirbhar Bharat means a self-reliant India. But the 21st century world is a globalised world. The production of almost all products has become a global process. So the only way for a country to create jobs is to become a part of the global production system. The problem with Atma-Nirbhar / self-reliance is that it suggests isolation - ie, cutting ourselves off from the world.

To benefit from the globalised economy, a country must participate in it by using its strengths to the fullest. The British economist David Ricardo proved this mathematically in his theory of comparative advantage in 1817 - more than 200 years ago. And this is what we have to do. That is, we must become Atma Shakti Nirbhar - an India that uses its strengths to participate fully in the global economy. We must become Atma Shakti Nirbhar Bharat - not simply 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat'.

05 August 2022

Have To Start Hating You

Fell in love with you
Wanted to marry you
But cannot marry you
Have to marry someone else

Have to start hating you
Have to get you out of my mind
Have to stop thinking about you
Have to fall out of love with you

Have to forget I loved you
Have to forget you even existed
Have to forget everything about you
Have to forget all my dreams with you

Have to fall in love with another girl
Somehow all over again
But every time I look at her face
I will only see your face

Realise how much I love you
Only when I can't get you
Earlier I couldn't see anything bad in you
Now I shouldn't see anything good in you

Everybody tells me
Listen to your head
And not to your heart
But my head and heart are one

Your face and your smile
Your voice and your laughter
Just fill my head completely
And simply refuse to leave me

My heart is yanked out of my chest
And been ripped into shreds
I have to somehow put it back in
And stitch my chest back together

My love for you then was deep
But my self-pity now is deeper
The only way to claw myself out of this cavern
Is to first reach its bottom

Have to start hating you . . .

This is what happens when a PhD student cannot do his thesis on his favourite subject - and has to do it on another subject.