Once in a while even silly “thought provoking” articles require a riposte. Michael Strain’s defense of billionaires is one of these. You can read it in the FT, and also consider the hundreds of unanimously critical comments. Reading it made me think about the book I am currently reading which calls for very tight limits on wealth accumulation: “Limitarianism”, much more on that below.
Monthly Archives: September 2025
East-West Street and Lemberg
Philippe Sands’ “book “East West Street” was hard to stomach but I couldn’t put it down. Sands traces his family history in today’s Lviv in the Ukraine, yesteryear’s Lemberg in Austria-Hungary. His grandfather’s family has its roots near the city. Like most of Galicia’s Jewish population, it was almost entirely murdered during the holocaust.
Continue readingViksit Bharat 2047 and India’s Urban Futures
India aims to become a developed nation by 2047, the centenary of its independence. Urban development is one significant pillar of this push. I jot down some links and notes from a short engagement with the subject.
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