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Elites’ pragmatism also manifest itself in more confrontational tactics of funding right wing think tanks and political parties to counter the Indian government’s economic policies under Nehru’s prime ministership. J. R. D. Tata, for example, believed that Nehru’s economic policies had ‘drift[ed] to the extreme left; the private sector [was] being tolerated as long as it serve[d] the purpose’. He suggested, therefore, withholding all financial support to the Congress and lobbying allocation of a small number of seats in the Indian Parliament to economic elites.
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
Arun Kumar
‘Whenever we act’, continues Jacquette, ‘we intend to do something, and our intending intends, is directed toward or about a state of affairs that does not yet exist’ – hence actions are ‘future-directed, and in some cases fiction-directed’, since it may so happen that the state the agent aims at never comes to exist (e.g. utopia).
The Progress of This Storm
Andreas Malm
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
Rising Strong
Brené Brown
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