Response to Ravi Kiran's blog post entitled "There is no poverty except thought poverty"

This will most likely be the first of many articles addressing the political views expressed in a WordPress blog called "Ravithinks".^[1] This blog was brought to my attention by certain friends who noticed that the views espoused therein, belonging to a blogger called Ravi Kiran,^[2] are quite different to my own sociopolitical views. In presenting Kiran's ideas to me, my friends and I began to have a quite prolonged discussion that they thought deserved a more formal exposition. I hope I can offer that here.