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A book that “must be read by every Indian” according to Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound |
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Anthem Press. Forthcoming, mid-2008
50% preview of the book available free of cost! Download (non-printable) PDF (0.7MB) Also Also download the printable online notes that accompany the book (Word; 0.65 MB)
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The author, Sanjeev Sabhlok (PhD in Economics) was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1982-2001. Since March 2001 he has been working in the public sector in Australia.
He tried three times to form a political party in India grounded in freedom. He has recently commenced a fourth attempt to create a platform for leaders who advocate freedom. This book outlines, among other things, why he left the IAS and why he tried to start a political movement to liberate India.
This book not only talks about India’s expensive, failed experiment with socialism, it also proposes a way forward for India to achieve greatness founded on freedom. It talks about the great future that lies ahead of India should it succeed in reforming its governance. An article by the author in 30 July 2007 in the Times of India article talks of some of the reforms needed today. These and many more reforms are discussed in detail in the book. |
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Can you lead India to freedom? – then join the Freedom Team of India
If you have not yet lost your optimism about India, and are not bogged down in unproductive cynicism which is typical of most Indians, then consider joining the Freedom Team. India needs at least 1500 leaders to contest elections and take reforms such as those proposed in this book to the people.
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Thanks, and a request:
I’d like to thank all those who have written to me since I placed this manuscript online in April 2007. The first edition of this book is now nearing the printing stage. Your comments can inform future editions of the book, so please post them at the blog for this book or write to me at sabhlok AT yahoo DOT com.
If you agree with some of my ideas (and even if you don’t) please pass on a link to this web page to your friends and relatives in India. Let them consider these ideas themselves.
I am on the lookout for competent volunteers to translate my book into Indian languages. I’ve got a volunteer for Hindi and Malayalam, so I’m looking for translators other languages now. It may take six months of your spare time, so it is a lot of work! There will be very little reward as well—just your name on the main page and some potential good of the country, presuming the translation gets published (Anthem Press has rights to these translations at the moment). Despite these limitations, if you are interested in translating this book, please write to me at sabhlok AT yahoo DOT com with a brief summary of your background.
Thanks for your ongoing interest.
Sanjeev
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What is this book about? | Reviews
In this book I reflect on India’s post-independence experience and discuss the impact of Nehruvian socialism on freedom in India. I find Nehruvian socialism as the primary cause of India's political and bureaucratic corruption, its poverty, and its large, illiterate population.
I then suggest that India needs to completely discard its socialist paradigms and move towards capitalism and governance based on the principles of freedom. I propose suggestions to transform India from its present moral bankruptcy to greatness, thorough competitive, freedom-based solutions. Many of these solutions already work in the more free countries. Throughout, I argue that India can, and should, aspire to be the world’s best in everything it does. I am convinced there is no point in wasting one’s life trying to be the second best.
The solutions I recommend range from a re-write of the Indian Constitution to make it simpler and clearly focused on freedom, to the radical restructure of the Indian public services. In particular, I discuss specific reforms of the Indian bureaucracy (link to my Times of India article, once again) and how the corrupt politics of India can be cleaned up (link to an independent review of chapter 5 of the book). In this regard I advocate state funding of elections and raising the salaries of politicians significantly. I discuss ways to eliminate poverty through a negative income tax, and to educate everyone to their highest potential, to free the labour market, to impose carbon taxes on greenhouse gases, and to seek compensatory payments from developed countries for their prior carbon emissions.
It is my recommendation that India must not delay reforming its governance any further. It should adopt the lessons from the world’s leaders in governance and stop its mindless corruption and the destruction of its people’s potential.
Note: To download the spreadsheet used for the calculations in chapter 4, click here. N |
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Forthcoming: I started a book called A short history of freedom in early 2005. It grew too big and I split it into two. The first of these two is called Breaking Free of Nehru. The second, entitled ‘The Discovery of Freedom’ is nearing completion of a reasonable draft which I’ll put online for comment. Please visit this blog which provide updates on the second book. |
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Link this web page to yours: This book has a ‘word-of-mouth’ “business model”. If you like the manuscript please link this page to your website or blog. Here’s the relevant HTML code: <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><a href="http://www.sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/breakingfree.html"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 src=http://www.sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/bfree.jpg></span></a></span></p>
Upon inserting the above code, this following image will show up on your website/ blog:
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Picture to the right: Painting (Oil: on ‘oil paper’ May 1975) by Sanjeev Sabhlok (author) while he was a year 10 student in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Picket, Secunderabad. This was painted a few months before Indira Gandhi’s declared Emergency.
The image depicts the hunger and poverty found in India. It mocks the ‘Garibi Hatao’ and Family Planning initiatives (inverted red triangle) of Indira Gandhi. Note in particular the pretentious placement of Indira’s hand (also the symbol of Congress (I)) seemingly reflecting concern for the poor, even as her shifty eyes behind a veil show us the truth about her corrupt socialist vision: a vision founded on deception, autocracy, and the destruction of entrepreneurship in the country.
These policies were to doom India for 60 years, and will continue to doom India’s millions unless someone can completely reverse India’s political ideology. |
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