Sanjeev Sabhlok VOICES
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The Congress has failed to stop the rise of Godse worshippers. It must disband.
May 27, 2019, 9:16 AM IST
A proud party that once brought India freedom has now failed to hold the fort even against the forces that murdered Gandhi. Worshippers of Godse are now in parliament. And we have a Prime Minister…
May 27, 2019, 9:16 AM IST
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The 2010 moratorium on Bt brinjal must go before 10 June 2019
May 24, 2019, 3:03 PM IST
Article 51A(h) of the Constitution requires citizens to develop a scientific temper and spirit of inquiry. But Indian governments have never really supported science. I remember the conversations in the 1970s among National Science Talent…
May 24, 2019, 3:03 PM IST
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Reform suggestions for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
May 21, 2019, 10:32 PM IST
I am generally very critical of RSS but I agree that people who join it do so because of positive reasons – there can be no doubt that RSS is a genuinely nationalist organization. Patriotism,…
May 21, 2019, 10:32 PM IST
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What Lee Kuan Yew knew: Lesson to India from Singapore’s transformation: promote merit, devise incentive compatible solutions
May 18, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
In less than sixty years Singapore has transformed from a poor developing country into one of the richest – its per capita income is now double that of Australia. Singapore will be in a class…
May 18, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Climate science violates the basic precepts of science
May 9, 2019, 11:03 AM IST
There are two key pillars of science. First, it doesn’t matter how many “scientists” believe something. All of them could be proven wrong by a single new scientific theory or experiment. Science is always tentatively…
May 9, 2019, 11:03 AM IST
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The Chinese transformation is based on mastery over economics
May 5, 2019, 10:57 AM IST
China’s transformation from being a communist backwater under Mao into an efficient and powerful nation today in the span of four decades boggles the mind. There is something amazing about the scale of its transformation….
May 5, 2019, 10:57 AM IST
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Are we genetically corrupt?
May 2, 2019, 10:53 AM IST
Recently a retired Indian civil servant wrote to me: “if you analyse the DNA of a child born here you will find the bribe gene”. This genetic disposition presumably explains India’s chronic corruption. But if…
May 2, 2019, 10:53 AM IST
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Nyay needs significant improvement and total abolition of socialism, in order to work
March 31, 2019, 4:46 AM IST
Swarna Bharat Party has a three-pronged policy on poverty alleviation. First, we believe in radically transforming the governance system and policies (such as liberating the education and farm sectors and abolishing the IAS) to create…
March 31, 2019, 4:46 AM IST
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The liberals are contesting 45 Lok Sabha seats, after a gap of five decades
March 25, 2019, 9:47 PM IST
India has a peculiar political problem – that even though it is a liberal democracy it does not have a major liberal party. Our 1950 Constitution was based on liberal ideas but most of our…
March 25, 2019, 9:47 PM IST
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Why AAP is not a suitable alternative for India
March 24, 2019, 11:37 AM IST
Some people have asked me why I don’t join Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The short answer is that AAP is a full-blown socialist party, a replica of Congress and BJP – and in…
March 24, 2019, 11:37 AM IST
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Liberal policies are the only proven way to improve the lives of the poor
March 23, 2019, 11:12 AM IST
Poverty has been the natural state of mankind for tens of thousands of years. It is prosperity that is abnormal. In fact, the elimination of poverty requires mastery of a rather challenging science that is…
March 23, 2019, 11:12 AM IST
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Kautilya would have totally rejected the idea of the IAS
March 17, 2019, 11:32 AM IST
India’s governance has failed in two key aspects. Its policies are based on the failed economic system of socialism and we follow the British imperial administrative system of district magistrates and the IAS, which was…
March 17, 2019, 11:32 AM IST
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The challenge of scaling up the liberal message
February 13, 2019, 2:34 PM IST
Liberal political parties in the West attract young talent which is then groomed for national leadership. Not so in India. We hardly have any liberal talent and whatever we do have has almost nowhere to…
February 13, 2019, 2:34 PM IST
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The Citizenship Amendment Bill needs major amendments
January 26, 2019, 4:38 PM IST
I’m in Guwahati at the moment, introducing our party’s ideas about liberty and good governance to the people of Assam. I have a deep affiliation with Assam, having worked here for nearly a decade and…
January 26, 2019, 4:38 PM IST
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Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
January 23, 2019, 3:17 PM IST
Kerala has water everywhere, with tens of rivers and many large fresh water lakes. But even in the 5-star hotel in Kochi which I recently stayed, bottled water was the way to go. The state’s…
January 23, 2019, 3:17 PM IST
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Till India can build a footpath, it will remain a Third World nation
January 18, 2019, 10:37 AM IST
Footpaths are a public good and are almost always provided by the government. They matter most to the poor and disadvantaged who need to walk to work. But our roads either don’t have footpaths or…
January 18, 2019, 10:37 AM IST
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India can get world-class universities if the government gets out of the way
January 6, 2019, 3:12 PM IST
There is an impression floating around that India has a good higher education system. But the reality is that even our best universities are dismal by world standards. I myself had this impression before I…
January 6, 2019, 3:12 PM IST
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India has a colonial Constitution made worse by socialist intervention
January 1, 2019, 12:34 PM IST
By the time India became independent, socialism was on the ascendant. Most of our leaders were interventionists – even Rajaji, who supported prohibition. Further, British rule had not been able to separate the jurisdiction of…
January 1, 2019, 12:34 PM IST
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The failed socialist experiment of capitalist Scandinavian countries
December 27, 2018, 12:10 PM IST
Are Scandinavian countries capitalist or socialist? And why is there even such a question? Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen told students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2015: “Some people in the US associate…
December 27, 2018, 12:10 PM IST
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Our party’s views on the Raghuram Rajan economic strategy
December 22, 2018, 2:57 PM IST
Liberalism is about continuous improvement and our party is always on the lookout for ever better policy ideas. I therefore looked through the recent recommendations of thirteen economists led by Raghuram Rajan very carefully. Our…
December 22, 2018, 2:57 PM IST
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