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Category: Administrative Issues

August 9, 2026

The GTA at Darjeeling: A Governing Body Still Searching for Its Footing

Fourteen years after its creation, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration remains one of India’s more curious experiments in regional autonomy — a body designed to give the Gorkha hill communities of…
September 1, 2016

Law and Women: Religious personal Laws some thoughts with regard to the Uniform Civil Code

The contemporary Indian society is multicultural that is pluralistic with regard to religious laws. These are laws governing different religious groups according to their religious tenants. These laws sometime come…
September 1, 2016

Letter to Indian citizens, 1 September 2016: Introducing India’s only liberal party and how it can fix India’s problems.

Dear fellow citizen of India, Subject: Inviting you to consider the vision and approach of India’s only liberal party Our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for India’s liberty. They would…
August 31, 2016

India’s only liberal party challenges the PM to implement Minimum Government, Maximum Governance

National Press Release – to be released across India 26 August 2016 – embargoed till 4 pm. [Marathi version of the press release: in Word | PDF] President of Swarna Bharat Party, Sanjay…
May 22, 2012

The position of the Freedom Team of India on the Jan Lokpal Bill

25 March 2012 (All FTI documents are draft documents, subject to ongoing improvement) 1. What is the Freedom Team of India? The Freedom Team of India (FTI) is a team…
December 27, 2011

The position of the Freedom Team of India on the Jan Lokpal Bill (DRAFT, 27 December 2011)

These are the views of the Freedom Team of India Upon the Jan Lokpal, currently being debated in the parliament. This is a draft document open for the public…
November 11, 2011

Rethinking federalism in India

In a period of widespread discontent and chaos, a period of the increasing clamour for Autonomy and separate states, a period of the waking of the political consciousness and aspiration…
August 13, 2011

On the futility of the Jan Lok Pal and importance of Election Reforms first.

As we approach the 64thIndependence Day, my thoughts yet again drift towards the state of our union, and the way towards a more perfect one. In the past year a…

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