Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (1899-1965) was an eminent industrialist, banker, and economist. He was one of the architects of free India’s banking and insurance business. Shroff was amongst the earliest proponents of free enterprise in India. In 1956, Shroff co-founded the Forum of Free Enterprise, a think-tank, as a means to

The farmers’ movement in India is as old as time itself. Throughout our independent history, there have been numerous struggles and demands for reforms by Indian farmers against all dispensations. The demand for reforming the agricultural sector, giving access to open markets and de-regulating the economic freedom of farmers has

The following musing is an excerpt from ‘To Prosperity through Freedom’, published in journal Incorporating the ‘Free Economic Review’ and ‘The Indian Rationalist’ Vol. 8 No. 5. The piece written by V. R. discusses and contextualizes Swatantra Party’s Philosophy and Policy which was declared at Patna on 19 and 20

Man is first and foremost a being endowed with the power of independent thought and action, and with the ability to distinguish right from wrong.

The following musing is an excerpt from a booklet under the same name, authored by Murarji Vaidya and published by the Forum for Free Enterprise in 1956. The author addresses the objectives of the Second Five Year Plan proposed by the Planning Commission of India – highlighting the restrictions on

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

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

This piece is an excerpt about Parliament’s Amending Power from Nani Palkhivala’s “Our Constitution Defaced and Defiled”

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.

it is the problem of finding 'the most fruitful method of combining planning - the right kind and degree of planning - with freedom'.