The following booklet titled “State Trading and Democracy: Doctrinaire Dogmas” and authored by Murarji Vaidya elaborates upon the changing trends in Indian economy through an inclination towards state trading. The author comments upon the irony where while Eastern European countries have moved towards discarding socialist ideologies, the expansionism of the State Trading Corporation in 1956 marked encroachment upon free enterprises. While private enterprises have ensured efficiency in domestic as well as export trade sectors, the author believes that the excessive concentration of economic power in the hands of the State is a hindrance to the constitutional right of free trade and a cause of inefficiency. The concluding remarks of the author express credibility of the exercises of the Forum of Free Enterprise and their manifesto of developing and fostering healthy traditions in the sphere of trade and industry.