India Needs to Treat Its Foreign Trade Same as Defense Sector, Part-1
Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. Published at South Asia Monitor on May 17, 2016 A country spends significant amount of money on its defense without thinking about any monetary benefit from defense sector. For an...
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Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. Published at South Asia Monitor on May 18, 2016. Instead of becoming an exporting country like China, India is becoming an importing country like the US. In 2004, India trade...
View ArticleChinese yuan replacing US dollar as global currency: A not so distant prospect
Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. Published at South Asia Monitor on May 1, 2016 During World War II, only the US and UK deliberated about the future of global economy, culminating into the 1944 Bretton Woods...
View ArticleThe Importance of Asanas in Revolutionary Meditation
By Trond Øverland This article follows up on the earlier article “Revolutionaries Should Practice Yoga” published in Prout Magazine (Delhi) May 2016. As mentioned there, in order to establish pervasive...
View ArticleThe Vital Energy of Students
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar (14 September 1959, Motihari, Bihar) Normally between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four human beings have abundant vital energy (práńa shakti). This is the period of...
View ArticleNo More Political Parties – PROUT for Essential Social Unity
[Prout Globe, November 2016] – The present system of democracy relies on political parties as a means for directing voting processes, representation, etc. Party politics however only seems to teach us...
View ArticleDemonetisation Will Not Bring Down Corruption and Black Money in India
Picture above: Nearly 40 deaths – including suicides, cardiac arrests in long queues, hospital casualties and a murder in a fit of rage in the first few days of India's demonetisation. The move caused...
View ArticleStop Taxcuts-fueled Consumer-driven Economy Which has Led the US to the Brink...
By Dr. Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. susmitkumar.net The Modi government needs to stop listening to the US-educated economists’ mantra of trickle-down economy, i.e. to use taxcuts to fuel a consumer-driven...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost of Imported Items and The Need to Redefine the Modi...
By Susmit Kumar, PhD susmitkumar.net If you live in India and purchase a "Made in China" commodity instead of "Made-in-India" commodity, then your home country loses not only a factory job but also...
View ArticleCentralization of Wealth, Capitalism’s Losing Battle
The global trend of wealth concentration does not bode well for global capitalism. A main precursor of its armageddon is that the money accumulated by capitalists stops circulating and remains inert or...
View ArticleThree Cardinal Socio-Political Principles
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar For the all-round welfare and development of human beings, society needs to follow some fundamental socio-political principles. Without the firm foundation of such...
View ArticleDignified Socio-economies Both Closed and Open
By Trond Øverland Keywords: Protectionism, free trade, national capitalism, Prout. These days, whenever someone mentions "the economy" many of us actually think of "our society and its economy". We...
View ArticleIs “Make In India” Theme Helping Indian Economy? – Part II
By Susmit Kumar, PhD susmitk@hotmail.com Please click here for its Part I: Is "Make In India" Theme Helping Indian Economy? – Part I As shown in Charts 1 to 9 below, India’s foreign trade is following...
View ArticleTwo Competing Models in the Global Economy
Dr. Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. The two tables and six charts shown below prove which economic model India should follow, either: The US economic model that lost millions of jobs related to: – a decrease of...
View ArticleWhose $1 Trillion is China Spending on OBOR?
Dr. Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. Under the OBOR (One Belt One Road) project, China is planning to spend more than $1 trillion to reshape the global economy. The question is whose $1 trillion China has been...
View ArticleUS Business Schools, Wall Street, and India
Picture above: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi dressing up China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Indian style. By Susmit Kumar, PhD In 2009, I attended a...
View ArticleHuman Progress
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar To get protection and to enjoy the manifested universe of the Supreme Entity is the birthright of each and every being. There are three fundamental strata in the...
View ArticleBusiness People
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar From "Various Occupations", Human Society Part 1 (1959). Also published in Prout in a Nutshell Volume 1 Part 3, in Supreme Expression Volume 2, and in The Great...
View ArticleSarkar on Free Trade
First, there should be a free trade system so that overproduction can be consumed by other countries or other economic units. In India, excepting the Punjab and Haryana, there is underproduction of...
View ArticleThe Wording of the Five Fundamental Principles of Prout
Dear reader, For nearly 40 years, someone has been trying to replace the original English wording of the fundamentals of PROUT with his own "translation from Ananda Sutram". In recent years, this...
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