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Indian Liberals Matter
A regular column on ThePrint surfacing the Indian liberal tradition for a contemporary readership. We catalogue every piece here and link out to ThePrint where the canonical version lives — each article opens at theprint.in.
49 pieces · sorted by most recent.
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23 May 2026 · M R Pai
Planning in India has failed because political factors dominate economic ones: MR Pai ↗
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16 May 2026 · GD Parikh
Govt should respect the autonomy of higher education institutes: GD Parikh ↗
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9 May 2026 · Arvind Lalbhai
An inefficient entrepreneur deserves to be branded as anti-social: Arvind Narottam Lalbhai ↗
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2 May 2026 · Minoo Masani
Without free enterprise in economic life, we cannot maintain democracy: Minoo Masani ↗
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25 April 2026 · MA Venkata Rao
Worker has no freedom in socialist society. India is moving in that direction: MA Venkata Rao ↗
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18 April 2026 · A Ranganathan
Jawaharlal Nehru opposed idea of SC being final arbiter of compensation: A Ranganathan ↗
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11 April 2026 · MA Venkata Rao
Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao ↗
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4 April 2026 · BS Sanyal
No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal ↗
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28 March 2026 · Sharad Joshi
Farmers’ agitations started in developed states like Coimbatore & Ludhiana: Sharad Joshi ↗
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21 March 2026 · BR Shenoy
Social injustice is inevitable under socialist economic systems: BR Shenoy ↗
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14 March 2026 · G N Lawande
Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande ↗
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7 March 2026 · G Jayachandran
Indian welfarists destroyed right to property by guaranteeing rights to life, liberty ↗
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28 February 2026 · MA Venkata Rao
Violent class-war doctrines of Marx became the sole saviour of labour: MA Venkata Rao ↗
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21 February 2026 · MH Mody
Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody ↗
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14 February 2026 · Minoo Masani
The so-called ‘socialist pattern’ and democracy cannot co-exist for long: Minoo Masani ↗
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7 February 2026 · BS Iyer
Capitalism isn’t responsible for mass unemployment. Look at Japan, Singapore: BS Iyer ↗
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31 January 2026 · G N Lawande
Welfare state is socially and economically a national disaster: GN Lawande ↗
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24 January 2026 · MA Venkata Rao
Marxism extinguishes democratic rights the moment it captures power: MA Venkata Rao ↗
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17 January 2026 · Nani Palkhivala
There’s no need for the outdated and ridiculous shroud of secrecy around Budget: Nani Palkhivala ↗
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10 January 2026 · Minoo Masani
Liberal methods reach social justice faster than socialism: Minoo Masani ↗
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3 January 2026 · MH Mody
Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody ↗
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27 December 2025 · BP Adarkar
Demonetisation is a wild hit at the bull’s eye. It will not hurt the guilty: BP Adarkar ↗
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20 December 2025 · DM Kulkarni
Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni ↗
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13 December 2025 · Ashok Desai
A shame-faced modesty pervades 1991 reforms. This is strange and inappropriate: Ashok Desai ↗
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6 December 2025 · P Kodanda Rao
No constitutional provision deserves repeal more than the one imposing Hindi: P Kodanda Rao ↗
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29 November 2025 · AD Shroff
Free-enterprise features are reshaping Russia’s socialist institutions: AD Shroff ↗
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22 November 2025 · Nani Palkhivala
India’s labour policy left it unable to compete with other eastern economies: Nani A Palkhivala ↗
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15 November 2025 · KD Valicha
Capitalism is the bedrock of all economic progress. Socialism is a parasite: KD Valicha ↗
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8 November 2025 · Sauvik Chakraverti
Population causes poverty is the devil’s philosophy. It causes prosperity: Sauvik Chakraverti ↗
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2 November 2025 · Hans Raj Khanna
Nothing suits dictatorship more than a subservient judiciary: Justice HR Khanna ↗
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25 October 2025 · Sachin Sen
The Press is not artillery — neither for the ruling party nor the Opposition: Sachin Sen ↗
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18 October 2025 · Tahir Siddiqui
Hitlerite vegetarianism is not virtue. India’s food debates need more science, less sentiment ↗
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11 October 2025 · AG Mulgaokar
If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar ↗
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4 October 2025 · A Ranganathan
English didn’t enslave India. It was the harbinger of a new creative consciousness: A Ranganathan ↗
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27 September 2025 · DR Pendse
Economist DR Pendse’s 7-point plan to cut expenditure and control budget deficit ↗
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20 September 2025 · BP Godrej
Was India’s public sector born out of European envy? ↗
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13 September 2025 · MA Venkata Rao
Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous ↗
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6 September 2025 · C Rajagopalachari
State control blocks India’s progress and exploits its people: C Rajagopalachari ↗
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30 August 2025 · Sharad Joshi
From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi ↗
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23 August 2025 · BR Shenoy
Planning for the free market, not state control, will lift India out of poverty: BR Shenoy ↗
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16 August 2025 · Nani Palkhivala
Like a gambler, govts squandered India’s legacy through mindless socialism: Nani Palkhivala ↗
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9 August 2025 · Phiroze J Shroff
Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff ↗
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2 August 2025 · G N Lawande
Socialist planners aggravated unemployment problem ↗
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26 July 2025 · Minoo Masani
Socialism doesn’t deliver prosperity or produce equality. Does it give freedom? Of course not ↗
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19 July 2025 · DN Hosali
Socialism hinders India’s industrial growth. We need free enterprise first ↗
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12 July 2025 · AD Shroff
Private enterprise didn’t fail in India. JN Tata’s steel dream soared despite British ridicule ↗
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5 July 2025 · M.A. Master
Private enterprise built India’s industries. Now it’s strangled by Gods in Delhi ↗
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28 June 2025 · Minoo Masani
Prices, like water, will find their own level. Controls breed vested interests: Minoo Masani ↗
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21 June 2025 · Om Prakash Kahol
Free education is mere jugglery of words. A hangover of anti-rational pre-Partition days ↗