Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 110

All the socialist IITs of India together can’t build a SINGLE footpath or storm water drain

IITs have been a disaster for India. Funded by socialist Nehru, they created clerks for the West. Within the country these IITs have not demonstrated the slightest ability to do even simple engineering. I won’t give examples of the thousands of examples of UTTER RUBBISH built by India’s engineers. Here’s just one: a combination stormwater […]

Launch of New India Movement on 6 October by Swami Om Poorna Swatantra

I attended the launch of the Abhinav Bharat Abhiyan yesterday by Swami Om  Poorna Swantara on his 81st birthday. The event was attended by over 100 farm leaders from across north India. I have rarely come across a man as good as Swami Om Poorna Swatantra. Although he doesn’t understand economics, he knows virtually everyone […]

To SBP leaders: Let’s build energetic leaders and avoid debates that waste our time

I’ve been going around India discussing and explaining to our leaders, most of whom are from the middle class, to STRICTLY AVOID the middle class and to focus, instead on the following key segments: Students (particularly economics, political science and law) Daily wage labourers and street vendors/ marginal lower middle class young persons in the […]

Why I vigorously oppose Deepak Lal and Jagadish Bhagawati

Economist Richard Ebeling posted a photo with Deepak Lal at a recent meeting of the Mont Pelerin society. My comment on FB. I appreciate the limitations of time which make it hard to follow what’s happening around the world, but Modi represents a hardcore fascist ideology. Let me summarise key issues briefly. His group (called […]

When Ambedkar called for burning India’s Constitution and called Nehru and his gang rakshasas, “Asuras”

Ambedkar was VERY unhappy with Nehru. He was not only the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee and supervised the writing of the Constitution, he was India’s first Law Minister. But by 1951 he had formed irrevocable differences with Nehru and resigned. He was given a seat in the Rajya Sabha in 1952 and in […]

My 3 October talk at Pune’s Entrepreneurs International Club: Why India’s petrol price is so high

The talk was held at Damle Hall. I think around 50 entrepreneurs attended. They started by pledging to serve the society and ended by presenting me with framed inspirational comments from JDR Tata: I’m posting a photo of the framed comments: Mr Subhas Mayankar, the President of the Entrepreneurs International Pune Club was to chair […]

Republishing Sharad Joshi’s 9 January 2004 speech on the final day of the 5-day India Policy Institute workshop I had organised

Now that I’m once again going to engage directly with Shetkari Sanghatna/Swatantra Paksha in an attempt to work out once and for all whether we are able to work together in a single team, it is time to remind myself and them about the work which was commenced in 2004 but came to a halt […]

Republishing the draft PIL against the SC/ST Atrocities Act that I had prepared two years ago

Someone was looking for this – I had prepared it more than two years ago. I can find a preliminary blog post here but have not time to search for the other posts. So republishing the Word version of the draft PIL.

Who’s who in Shetkari Sanghatna and Swatantra Bharat Paksha

Apart from sporadic meetings with Sharad Joshi and a few members of his team over the past 15 years, my interaction with them has been largely over email, phone and now, Whatsapp. I’m meeting a few of the current leaders of Shetkari Sangathna and Swatantra Bharat Paksha, so I thought I’d research from the internet […]

Documents/ resources on Sharad Joshi, Shetkari Sanghatana and Swatantra Bharat Party

I’ll be meeting key leaders of Shetkari Sanghatana/ Sangathana in Pune in a couple of weeks. I have worked with Sharad Joshi and know about his political work. He has an extensive Wikipedia entry. There’s a vast amount of material on Sharad Joshi on the internet. And I had compiled some material on him last […]