Articles by Arun Shourie

Intellectuals and the Interregnum Arun Shourie THE emergency forced us to look at ourselves, as if in a mirror. I would presume that most of us fell a few notches in our self-esteems.

Some Preliminary Hypotheses Arun Shourie Indian economists have shared with the rest of the elite the assumption that radical change is fust not possible in India. They have supplemented this assumption with another one: that such marginal change as is possible can only be brought about by a handful of policy-makers

contribution to national product of the components shifted around is not separately known. If the CSO were to give the figures for such components separately when changes occur in classifications, one could make the sectoral series comparable with previous figures to the extent one can by readjusting the 1970-71 and 1971-72 figures. At least for 1970-71 to 1972-73 separate figures should have been therefore given. Obviously, when the whole sector like mining and quarrying is shifted to the primary sectors for sub- I DO NOT know of any country that has as much unexploited

Why Not Let the Hounds Run?
CONTROLS have become a habit with us. Within Government circles the habit is by now so deeply ingrained, that the advantages of a proposal for a fresh control have no longer to be demonstrated. They arc assumed to be self- evident. Whenever the Government learns that an existing control is not working well its reflex action

Conservative Influence of Liberalism Indian Reappraisals Arun Shourie In spite of the familiar indices of progress little has changed in the 25 years of the country's independence in regard to two crucial matters. First, all evidence suggests that no progress has been made in reducing the absolute numbers of those who live below the poverty line. Second, little progress has been made in destroying privilege. Some of the most odious forms of privileges have indeed been done away with; but new privileges have replaced these. In fact, many of the policies and instruments that were designed to destroy the advantages of the privileged and the propertied appear in retrospect to have buttressed the very advantages they were intended to eliminate.