Category: About me

I worked in the Department of Treasury and Finance as a professional economist for 15 years, but the constraints on free speech as public servant were preventing me from expressing my opposition to the police state we now have in Victoria. To protest, I resigned on 9 September 2020. The resignation was accepted and fully processed on 10 September 2020.

Dear all, I'm delighted to inform that after 38 years of being a public servant (18+ in India, 19+ in Australia), always working behind the scenes, I've decided to come out as a free citizen.
My resignation process in Victoria has now been completed and I'm now a free bird.
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— Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason & Liberty (@sabhlok) September 10, 2020

@DanielAndrewsMP @timpallas – I invite your attention to my short podcast at: https://t.co/MJppG99YoN
I request you to organise a reset of all pandemic policies. The whole thing needs to be done differently. From scratch.
— Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason & Liberty (@sabhlok) September 11, 2020

8th August 2020

My resignation letter from the IAS, 14 January 2001

For my ready reference.

I had a LOT to say about why I was resigning, but chose not to do so. There would be plenty of time later. BFN is part of the explanation. And I’m currently working on another book project that will explain why it was essential to resign. [Of course, at the time I resigned I had not only no other job – but had moved to an entirely new country mid-career, and had severe RSI and acute pain etc. – but sometimes one has to burn the bridges to a road that goes nowhere. ]

8th August 2020

My repeated shunting by ultra-corrupt Hiteswar Saikia

Came across this 1991 newsreport from Assam about my being shunted around by Hiteswar Saikia. This was not the first such case – I had been moved from Director Rural Development earlier that year after I refused to do his bidding to award a major cement contract to his crony