Thoughts on economics and liberty
19th November 2018
Digging through old videos, and using my newly acquired video editing skills, I’ve extracted a short clip from a February 2010 event in Delhi. I introduced the people to the need for an independent national liberal party. As some of you know, the FTI effort led ultimately to the creation of Swarna Bharat Party.
19th June 2016
Many years ago, I held a positive opinion about Atanu Dey and even included him on FTI’s Speakers Panel. But this is the email that this man wrote to me on 11 October 2013, spitting on the work on political liberalism that I’ve been undertaking for two decades.
Hello Sanjeev:
As you may know, I am a supporter of Narendra Modi. Not just an average supporter but someone who passionately believes that Modi is likely to rescue India from the hole that Nehru and his bastards have put it into. I trust Modi. I think he is the best leader India has — and probably ever had since 1947. Everyone I work with is working on making Modi’s campaign a success. Everywhere I go, I campaign for Modi. Much of my writing is devoted to persuading people to support Modi. I do whatever I can to make sure that he becomes the PM of India. I respect him and hope that he is successful in his objective of making India strong and prosperous.
Your position is diametrically opposite mine. You believe Modi to be the biggest monster around. You have mounted a vicious campaign of calumny against Modi. You hold him in contempt. This disagreement is not just a matter of superficial differences. It is a fundamental difference. I am sure that you would not want to be associated with an ardent supporter of Modi.
Therefore I request you to please remove me from your mailing list, my blog listing from your sabhlokcity.com, etc. I do not wish to be associated in any way with FTI or its office bearers. Thank you.
Best wishes for your continued success.
Sincerely,
Atanu
I’m now informed by someone that the man has “changed” his mind re: Modi’s performance. Apparently this is what he has written:
“The sad truth is that instead of change, India in essence is still on the same old path India has been on since 1947. Heavy handed and inept government interference into the economy had prevented India from reaching anywhere close to its full economic potential. Though the realization that the needed structural reforms are unlikely to happen has dawned on most serious observers, it is politically incorrect to voice that concern for fear of antagonizing the powers that be.” [https://deeshaa.org/2016/06/15/squandering-indias-greatest-opportunity/#more-12935]
MY VIEW
Such illiberal supporters of Modi (his employer Rajesh Jain is a maniac supporter of Modi) are best ignored. They are two-faced liars (about their alleged “support” for liberty) and hence a blight on India’s face. I don’t wish to have anything to do with people who have SPAT on liberty and LICKED the boots of criminal socialists.
It is people like Atanu Dey and Rajesh Jain who have kept India from rapidly becoming the world’s most free – and prosperous – nation. They align with the destroyers of liberty and reject the honest pursuit of liberty. Please spare me these fake “liberals”.
The liberal movement CAN’T have ACTIVE supporters of socialists, criminals and crooks like Modi in its midst.
16th March 2015
One fine day in December 2007, after having mulled over it for many months (FTI had long been been proposed in my draft book, BFN), I decided to take the plunge for the last time, to look for a liberal alternative for India. No one told me to do it. No one except Anil Sharma – among those I had initially invited – was 100 per cent dedicated to such an idea. But the team moved incrementally from then, as people like Shantanu incrementally got persuaded.
For the record, [a copy of the mail without names of the 28 persons to whom it was sent is available here: http://freedomteam.in/initial-email]:
==[from my Eudora records, which contain sabhlokcity.com emails from October 1999]==
From: Sanjeev Sabhlok <s@sabhlokcity.com>
Subject: Do you want to join the Freedom Team of India?
To: [email IDs removed]
1. Anil Sharma
2. Antony Joseph
3. Ashok Desai
4. Atindra Sen
5. Babu Joseph
6. BV Talwar
7. Barun Mitra
8. Bibek Debroy
9. JP (by then he had started the LS Party)
10. Nirvikar Singh
11. SV Raju
12. Rakesh Wadhwa
13. Suresh Anand
14. Parth Shah
15. Gurcharan Das
16. Sauvik Chakraverti [Note – I had tried to maintain good relations with him despite incidents of 2004-2006 or so]
17. Mehta (forget his first name)
18. Jal Khambata
19. Madhu Kishwar
20. Mohit Satyanand
21. Deepak Lal
22. Raj Cherubal
23. Ramesh Ramanathan
24. Shantanu Bhagwat
25. N Sriram
26. Yazad Jal
27. Swati Ramanathan
28. Ajay Gandhi
Dear Friends
I am starting a Yahoo Groups platform to support the potential Freedom Team of India that I refer to in my forthcoming book 'Breaking Free of Nehru' which is due to hit bookstores mid-2008. See details at https://www.sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/breakingfree.html).
The Freedom Team is a group of potentially 1500 or more selected people who will come together to spread the message of freedom in India over the coming years and decades. Membership will be by invitation or personal screening only. The preliminary criteria of membership are available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freedomteam-india/ . Being a non-citizen, my role will be exclusively as a non-political facilitator. If things go well, the Freedom Team of India will attract high quality talent over the course of the coming years.
I am writing to you based on our previous interactions and my understanding of your work. If you are interested in being a part in this endeavour, please let me know. I'll then send you an official invitation to join the group. Names of potential invitees whom I have missed out may please be sent to me.
Regards
Sanjeev
sanjeev sabhlok
8th February 2015
I just sent out this email to the Freedom Team of India.