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Commerce and Control: Barriers to Free Enterprise (M.A. Rangoonwala, 1982)
Following is an excerpt from a booklet titled ‘Free Market Economy – Key to Economic Progress and Freedoms’, authored by M.A. Rangoonwaala and published by the Forum for Free Enterprise in 1982. The author emphasises that despite increased globalisation, restrictions on free trade persist. He highlights how bureaucratic obstacles, also
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Bureaucracy and the Liberal Administrator
Published by the Centre for Civil Society, a public policy think tank based out of New Delhi, this excerpt has been borrowed from Sauvik Chakraverti’s essay titled “New Public Management: Escape from Babudom”. The essay builds a case for new public management as an escape from the statist clutches of
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This piece is an excerpt about Parliament’s Amending Power from Nani Palkhivala’s “Our Constitution Defaced and Defiled”
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Economic Growth with Social Justice (1969)
Nani Palkhivala's Economic Growth with Social Justice talks about the need for standards of rationality and fair dealing, of social justice and individual freedom.
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Planning by Minoo Masani (1945)
it is the problem of finding 'the most fruitful method of combining planning - the right kind and degree of planning - with freedom'.
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Indian agricultural policy in a nutshell
The central and the most essential fact about Indian agriculture is that it suffers from either the caprices of nature or, when the nature is benign, by the tyranny of governmental interventions.
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V.M Tarkunde’s “Fundamental Right to Property” explains how the right to property is fundamental to a human being to enjoy other fundamental rights.
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Rukhmabai Raut: A Beacon of Courage and Change in British India
Rukhmabai's remarkable contributions to medicine and the cause of women's rights continue to inspire generations.
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Acharya N G Ranga: The Farmer’s Friend and Swatantra Party Stalwart
Throughout his political career, Ranga stood for peasants, the right to property and economic freedom.
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Tanguturi Prakasam Panthulu: A Visionary Leader and pioneer of Press Freedom
Tanguturi Prakasam inspired a generation of leaders as a role model politician of all times. With a liberal outlook towards rural development, Tanguturi always remained an idol of the masses. 
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