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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
Illustration with cogwheels containing words like regulations and compliances to depict state control on commerce and industry; restrictions to free trade.
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
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Manifesto for Indian Liberals
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.
Free Enterprise and Freedom (Murarji Vaidya, 1956)
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
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
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
Examination of Objections to Limitations of Amending Power (1960)
This piece is an excerpt about Parliament’s Amending Power from Nani Palkhivala’s “Our Constitution Defaced and Defiled”
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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