Breaking Free of Nehru


Anthem Press. (Click for the full cover) Forthcoming, second half of 2008	A book by Sanjeev Sabhlok
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The author, Sanjeev Sabhlok has a PhD in economics from USA and was a member of the Indian Administrative Service from 1982. Upon resigning from the service in January 2001, he moved to Australia where he now works in the public sector in regulatory policy. Since 2000 he made three failed attempts to form an Indian political party grounded in freedom and ethics. He has now commenced a fourth attempt focused on building a platform for leaders with the aim of launching a movement for freedom and integrity in India.

This book highlights India’s expensive but disastrous experiment with socialism. It proposes a way forward for India to become a great nation with freedom and ethical governance. An article by the author in the Times of India on 30 July 2007 talked of some of the reforms needed in India. These and many more reforms are passionately outlined in the book.

SECOND BOOK UNDER PREPARATION

The author is currently writing a new book, The Discovery of Freedom, the full text of which is currently available for download.

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If you have not yet lost your optimism about India, and are not bogged down in unproductive cynicism which is typical of most Indians, then consider joining the Freedom Team. India needs at least 1500 leaders to contest elections and take reforms such as those proposed in this book to the people.

Thanks, and a request:

I’d like to thank all those who have written to me since I placed this manuscript online in April 2007. The first edition of this book is now nearing the printing stage. Your comments can inform future editions of the book, so please post them at the blog for this book or write to me at sabhlok AT yahoo DOT com.

If you agree with some of my ideas (and even if you don’t) please pass on a link to this web page to your friends and relatives in India. Let them consider these ideas themselves.

I am on the lookout for competent volunteers to translate my book into Indian languages. I’ve been fortunate enough to get two volunteers, one for Hindi and one for Malayalam and I thank them immensely for their kindness. I’m now looking for translators other languages. It may take six months of your spare time, so it is a lot of work! There will be very little reward as well—just your name on the main page and some potential good of the country, presuming the translation gets published (Anthem Press has rights to these translations at the moment). Despite these limitations, if you are interested in translating this book, please write to me at sabhlok AT yahoo DOT com with a brief summary of your background.

Thanks for your ongoing interest.

Sanjeev

What is this book about? | Reviews

In this book I reflect on India’s post-independence experience and discuss the impact of Nehruvian socialism on freedom in India. I find Nehruvian socialism as the primary cause of India's political and bureaucratic corruption, its poverty, and its large, illiterate population.

I then suggest that India needs to completely discard its socialist paradigms and move towards capitalism and governance based on the principles of freedom. I propose suggestions to transform India from its present moral bankruptcy to greatness, thorough competitive, freedom-based solutions. Many of these solutions already work in the more free countries. Throughout, I argue that India can, and should, aspire to be the world’s best in everything it does. I am convinced there is no point in wasting one’s life trying to be the second best.

The solutions I recommend range from a re-write of the Indian Constitution to make it simpler and clearly focused on freedom, to the radical restructure of the Indian public services. In particular, I discuss specific reforms of the Indian bureaucracy (link to my Times of India article, once again) and how the corrupt politics of India can be cleaned up (link to an independent review of chapter 5 of the book). In this regard I advocate state funding of elections and raising the salaries of politicians significantly. I discuss ways to eliminate poverty through a negative income tax, and to educate everyone to their highest potential, to free the labour market, to impose carbon taxes on greenhouse gases, and to seek compensatory payments from developed countries for their prior carbon emissions.

It is my recommendation that India must not delay reforming its governance any further. It should adopt the lessons from the world’s leaders in governance and stop its mindless corruption and the destruction of its people’s potential.

Note: To download the spreadsheet used for the calculations in chapter 4, click here.

Forthcoming: This book, Breaking Free of Nehru, started as A short history of freedom in early 2005. It grew and grew so it had to be split into two separate books. The first of these is called Breaking Free of Nehru. The second was entitled ‘A short logic and history freedom’ but this title is likely to change. The second one is currently in its first draft. I plan to put out the third draft for public comment on the internet in July 2008, like I did with Breaking Free of Nehru in April 2007. After that the book will undergo at least 5-6 more revisions before publication (provided someone agrees to publish it!).

Link this web page to yours: This book has a ‘word-of-mouth’ “business model”. If you like the manuscript please link this page to your website or blog. Here’s the relevant HTML code:

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Upon inserting the above code, this following image will show up on your website/ blog:

Picture to the right:

Painting (Oil: on ‘oil paper’ May 1975) by Sanjeev Sabhlok (author) while he was a year 10 student in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Picket, Secunderabad. This was painted a few months before Indira Gandhi’s declared Emergency.

The image depicts the hunger and poverty found in India. It mocks the ‘Garibi Hatao’ and Family Planning initiatives (inverted red triangle) of Indira Gandhi. Note in particular the pretentious placement of Indira’s hand (also the symbol of Congress (I)) seemingly reflecting concern for the poor, even as her shifty eyes behind a veil show us the truth about her corrupt socialist vision: a vision founded on deception, autocracy, and the destruction of entrepreneurship in the country.

These policies were to doom India for 60 years, and will continue to doom India’s millions unless someone can completely reverse India’s political ideology.

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