{"id":5416,"date":"2007-11-16T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2007-11-16T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T03:09:00","slug":"india-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/india-is-different\/","title":{"rendered":"India is Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to my post, <a href=\"\/changing-the-laws-of-gravity\/\" title=\"Changing the Laws of Gravity\">Changing the Laws of Gravity<\/a>, Dr Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey <a href=\"http:\/\/mdeii.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/delusion-called-free-market-and-gravity.html\" title=\"A Delusion called the Free-Market (and gravity)\">writes me an open letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In America the law of the market and the law of gravity are specifically written down in their constitution. This is primarily a result of the era in which the American Founding Fathers lived, and their writing is a reflection of their belief system. Therefore America is where the market and gravity were said to exist (that is, until recently).<\/p>\n<p>India, on the other hand is different. Since we were not founded on the principle of the free market and of gravity, but instead on socialism and the history of Hanuman having flown to Lanka, one cannot expect western values to be imposed on us. Unfortunately, the neo-liberals amongst us make the very mistake and point to the American constitution as an example.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to my post, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/changing-the-laws-of-gravity\/\" title=\"Changing the Laws of Gravity\">Changing the Laws of Gravity<\/a>, Dr Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey <a href=\"http:\/\/mdeii.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/delusion-called-free-market-and-gravity.html\" title=\"A Delusion called the Free-Market (and gravity)\">writes me an open letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In America the law of the market and the law of gravity are specifically written down in their constitution. This is primarily a result of the era in which the American Founding Fathers lived, and their writing is a reflection of their belief system. Therefore America is where the market and gravity were said to exist (that is, until recently).<\/p>\n<p>India, on the other hand is different. Since we were not founded on the principle of the free market and of gravity, but instead on socialism and the history of Hanuman having flown to Lanka, one cannot expect western values to be imposed on us. Unfortunately, the neo-liberals amongst us make the very mistake and point to the American constitution as an example.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>India is Different - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/india-is-different\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India is Different - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Responding to my post, Changing the Laws of Gravity, Dr Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey writes me an open letter: In America the law of the market and the law of gravity are specifically written down in their constitution. 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