In End to Appeasement, MR Masani expresses his displeasure at Nehru’s foreign policies on the issue surrounding Chinese aggression. He questions if India truly follows its non-alignment policy. He vociferates through the essay his disapproval for Nehru’s tactics of avoiding conflicts, suppressing facts from the Parliament, and failing to raise
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- September 2, 2022
In this essay, MR Masani evaluates the merit of Swatantra Party’s ideas and discusses the Party’s agenda in the February 1976 elections, listing qualifications for being a stronger candidate than Congress. Drawing inspiration from the Bible, Lincoln, and Gandhi, the Swatantra Party believed in limited government and trusting the conscience
- September 2, 2022
The Social and Religious Decay was written by C. Rajagopalachari. It begins by explaining how one must have an innate desire to improve and help others. Any policy sabotaging these “social urges” is harmful. Emphasizing the role of free will, Rajagopalachari evaluates Congress’ policies as forceful, harming voluntary social cooperation
- September 2, 2022
A 1967 landmark judgement declared that it was not within the powers of the Parliament to abridge Fundamental Rights granted in Part III of the Constitution.
- August 29, 2022
But if we are to alter the Fundamental Rights, then, it is my humble but most earnest submission, that the arbiter must be the people themselves
- August 23, 2022
There is no better test of the excellence of a Government than the efficiency of the Judicial system. If the law is dishonestly administered, the salt has lost savour.
- August 17, 2022
The Essence of Democracy was authored by Indian Parliamentarian and liberal thinker, Minoo Masani. It was originally published by the Harold Laski Institute of Political Science, Ahmedabad in March 1989. In the essay, Masani discusses several necessary conditions of a liberal democracy. In the Indian context, he discusses ideas of
- August 12, 2022
“The state is made for the individual and not the individual for the State”. This is a basic principle of liberal democracy.
- August 12, 2022
Published by the Swatantra Party, Why Swatantra is a conjoined effort of C Rajagopalachari, NG Ranga, Minoo Masani and KM Munshi as they analyse with incisive logic the need for a new party and explain with great clarity the party’s fundamental philosophy and programmes. Why Swantantra? They answer: to save
- August 11, 2022
M.R. Pai, Vice-President, Forum of Free Enterprise, Bombay inaugurated the first Rajaji Memorial Lecture on 5th December 1983 by talking on the subject of the Relevance of Rajaji’s Economic Thinking Today. Pai spoke about how freedom and democracy are essential for growth and development of a nation. Rajaji’s far-sighted economic
- August 11, 2022