Steam Center Blog

Human in Khaki by Ashok Kumar As a developing country struggling to emerge from its colonial past, in the arena of public services, there is much that needs improvements in India. One of these is policing. An insidious practice has developed in India to demand long and inhumane working hours from the force. This had led to poor physical and psychological health as well as poor family life of Indian policemen. Such a force cannot be expected to provide quality service to public. While many suggestions for improving the police force have been put forth by individuals and institutions in India, few have been followed up. However, yesterday the High Court at Nainital passed a judgment that is a key element of police reforms in India. It has been mentioned in a companion blog, https://nainitalgoddess.blogspot.com how the Lovely Himalayan Town of Nainital built around the lake of the goddess Naini has been at forefront of many changes not just in India but also the world since i...

Fair trade implies that a country does not face a major trade deficit with another country. Presently some fear that steps being taken by US to end the trade deficit with China may lead to trade wars. In any case, it is leading to a lot of waste of time, stress, negotiations and worries for lot of humans across the spectrum of trade and governance. Trade wars take place when a country imposes tariffs on some goods and in response the other country imposes tariffs on other goods. There is however a very simple way to fix trade deficit that avoids trade wars or minimizes possibilities of one. It has been mentioned in this blog earlier but seems it was not heeded. An even simpler version of the method is now repeated. Any country A that wishes to balance trade with another country B may adopt the following rule of tariffs In any financial year if A or B has a trade deficit in the previous financial year, then the country in deficit shall impose a tariff of X percent on ...