Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 127

First report from the 2-day SBP Young Leaders Workshop in Allahabad on 5 and 6 April 2018

Liberalism cannot succeed in India without thousands of high quality leaders. The search for leaders is pressing and urgent. Everything depends on finding great leaders. In 2007, after having experienced first hand the total vacuum of liberal leadership in India, I had started the Freedom Team of India. Typical of my (somewhat similar) previous experience […]

Rajesh Jain seems to have given up on hardcore socialist Modi. My suggestions to him.

Thanks to the SBP leadership team that finds out information on all relevant new developments, I’ve been made aware of Rajesh Jain’s further work (and presumably Atanu Dey’s) on political liberalism. A BIT OF BACKGROUND In 2010 I met Atanu Dey along with a few members of the nascent Freedom Team of India at dinner […]

I condemn Modi government’s attack on press freedom. Who is government to “accredit” any journalist? Orwell would have approved.

My tweets: And I assume that India press, which is almost entirely corrupted, will take this lying down. — Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) April 3, 2018   and: https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/98...  

First report from Swarna Bharat Party’s first major public meeting

An email I sent out to around 7000 people a moment ago (amended slightly to minimise typos): ==== Dear all Thanks to Whatsapp, I’m able to share some photos (see below my signature) from SBP’s excellent public meeting that started from 11 am today in Gyanpur. It was attended by over 500 persons (that’s what […]

Critique of Anand Prasad’s so-called “Liberal Party of India’s” “agenda for transformation”

I was curious about whether Anand Prasad’s “party” has done anything further. It appears they have set up a more detailed website by now, e.g. http://liberalpartyofindia.org/libera... This contains the same old things that Anand mentioned in his fake interactions with Swarna Bharat Party, and which are entirely baseless pieces of “policy” – nothing to do […]

Next week is the biggest week for Swarna Bharat Party since its inception

I sent out the following as an email a moment ago. Sharing on my blog: === India’s political liberal journey has begun, with some serious work now happening on the ground. A quick reminder about SBP’s history and where we stand today: – party created (one would say, by accident) in June 2013 – registered […]

Naozer Aga’s paper on Indian political liberalism presented at Hamburg

As promised, I’ve OCRd and am publishing Naozer Aga’s 1986 paper, presented at the Liberal International Hamburg Convention. Download a Word version here. HAMBURG-CONGRESS May 1986 Theme Report 1986 : “De-regulation and State Intervention, the Liberal View” “The Challenge of Liberalisation in the Third World” by Mr N.J. Aga The Legacy of Rajiv Gandhi Industry […]

My thoughts on the passing away of Naozer Aga, a great Indian liberal

It is with dismay that I learnt today from Kashmira on Freedom First that Naozer Aga passed away last month in a road accident. He was a passionate motorcycle rider and died in an accident in harness, on his Ninja ZX Kawasaki at the dashing young age of 76 – a remarkable man who lived […]

Mahesh Maurya, SBP’s Bhadohi President sings a song for the first time in Indian streets, against socialism

This is something everyone should listen – this is perhaps the first time that socialism has been directly attacked in the streets of India. Fantastic work, Mahesh!

Five falsehoods that most Indians believe

That India’s large population size is a problem (e.g. “we are too big and other country lessons don’t apply to us”). That British rule harmed us so much that we are unable to recover from it. That capitalism is about exploitation of the poor by the rich. That Indians are fundamentally dirty and therefore litter […]