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Brief Biodata: The Freedom Team of India (known as FTI) is a forum for policy, strategy, and leadership development to promote our freedom and liberty. |
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Report from 2010 Mumbai Conference
April 26th, 2010The first conference of FTI was held in February 2010 in Mumbai. A detailed report on the conference, published in the March issue of the Towards a Great India magazine, is provided below (report prepared by Supratim Basu and condensed by Sanjeev Sabhlok).
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Main Conference dates: |
20 and 21 February 2010 |
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Venue: |
L. J. Business and Training Centre, Dadar West, Mumbai |
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Who paid for the venue? |
The local Mumbai team of FTI |
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Who paid for participants? |
Individual FTI members paid for their travel and lodging |
Photograph below: FTI members on the first day of the Conference, 20 February 2010
Left to right: Rahul Pandit, Ajay Anand, L.K.Kandpal, Siddharth Shankar, Ritesh Shukla, Supratim Basu, Anil Sharma, Akalpita Paranjpe, Ujjwal Bannerjee, Sanjeev Sabhlok, Dipinder Sekhon, Vishal Singh, Col. L. Anand, Shantanu Bhagwat, Kamal Sharma, Arun Shankar.
Not depicted (attended on the second and third days): Ashish Jauhari
Apology: Sandeep Shelke, Ram K. Atri, N.P. Singh. Many other members had wanted to attend but could not make it to this conference. We look forward to meeting them in future conferences.
[ No Comments ]New Member Guide
November 24th, 2009This has been prepared by a new member based on his experience of FTI. Please always start with the New Member Pack here.
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Welcome to FTI. Read this guide to get up and running with the workflow on FTI.
1. Get Gmail and make your life easier. Create a label for FTI using http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=118708. Set the label to archive the message(skip Inbox). Create a filter for FTI on gmail using http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6579 . Now all mails from google group should go to label.
2. FTI is divided into various other FTI groups for management. Currently the following groups exist: FTI Managers | FTI Backoffice | FTI Finance Committee | FTI ARMC | FTI Disciplinary Committee | FTI Adharshila | Adharshila Steering Committee | Freedom Partners FTI General Body| Towards a Great India | | FTI Future Leaders
3. Get to know the members of FTI here. Update your information also. For updating your information log into the blog using the username/password you should have received. Then go to profiles and fill up all relevant information.
4. Participate in fortnightly skype conference.
5. Take a look at the task spreadsheet here. This is a snapshot of whats going on FTI currently. If you want to add a new task, raise a conversation on the group.
6. Observe the conversation traffic on the group for a few days. Soon you would understand the workings and the context of the conversation and then chip in with your views
7. Should you wish to speak to someone from FTI over Skype you are encouraged to contact Mr. Shantanu Bhagwat at jai.dharma@gmail.com, with the subject: “FTI new member: wish to talk” and arrange a suitable time with him.
This quick guide should help you ramp up. Ask questions on the group if you need some help.
Go ahead and do it, if you believe something needs to be done.
[ 1 Comment ]How to make a donation
November 23rd, 2009Freedom Team of India (FTI) fully understand the value of hard earned money and thats why FTI works extremely hard to ensure that every amount you donate is used in the best possible way to bring much needed reforms.
FTI Bank details
Bank name: Axis Bank
Account number: 909020039016803
Customer Id: 832717284
Branch/Branch code: Indore (043)
NEFT code: UTIB0000043
Branch Address: Kamal Palace Indore 452003
Residing in India
Above bank details may be used for online donations within India. Donation to FTI is exempt from Income Tax under section 80G.
Overseas donation
Funds may be transferred through NRE bank account. Members are entitled to open their NRE bank account from anywhere in the world without visiting India.
FTI’s strategy
November 14th, 2009Powerpoint slide show (summary of strategy)
FTI’s strategy is outlined through these power point slides (about 300 KB). This draft is dated 13 November 2009 and is subject to improvement over the coming months.
Detailed strategy (Word document)
FTI’s detailed strategy is presented in this Word document (280KB) dated 19 November 2009. As usual, all FTI documents are subject to revision/ amendment.
[ No Comments ]Report on participation by members of the Freedom Team of India at the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Swatantra Party
August 6th, 2009The meeting was held in Mumbai on 1st August 2009. Awadhesh Singh, Vishal Singh, and Babu Joseph from FTI attended the meeting, along with S.V. Raju the organiser who is also an FTI member. In all, there were about 60-75 participants coming from diverse fields such as business, education, media, social work, etc. Some of the well-known participants:
[ No Comments ]FTI mailing lists and member management
June 6th, 2009THIS IS MEANT PURELY FOR INTERNAL FTI USE
This post will keep a record of key issues relating to FTI mailing lists and member management
Google Mailing lists
FTI operates a number of mailing lists on Gmail apart from its own listman lists:
1) FTI main group: http://groups.google.com/group/freedom-team-of-india
2) Towards a Great India: http://groups.google.com/group/towards-a-great-india
3) FTI managers: http://groups.google.com/group/fti-managers
4) FTI Future Leaders: http://groups.google.com/group/fti-future-leaders
5) FTI Backoffice: http://groups.google.com/group/fti-backoffice
8. FTI ARMC
10) Adharshila Steering Committee
11) FTI General Body
12) Freedom Partners
[ 1 Comment ]Are you a Liberal?
May 9th, 2009It would be presumptuous for a few people sitting on the Freedom Team to claims to be the custodian of freedom or liberalism. Thus, there is no ‘perfect’ liberalism just as there is no perfectly liberal society. However, it is hoped that members of FTI will take a particular view of freedom that is best classified, in the political philosophy sense, as ‘classical liberalism’. It is a classical view of liberty because it does not support various social democratic (welfare state) variations on the liberal theme formed in 20th century America and Europe.
[ No Comments ]Please read this before applying to join FTI
May 8th, 2009STEP 1 of the joining process
Dear potential member of FTI,
Thank you very much for coming by. We are looking for people like you who are committed to the long-term success of India as a prosperous liberal democracy. Since FTI aims to guarantee India the best possible leaders for the 2014 elections and beyond, we have a staged process of entry to the team. This page will point you to reading material for you to go through before undertaking Step 2 of the joining process. Reading and understanding this is important. Joining FTI is a life-long commitment to the cause of India, and you should make such a commitment only after due deliberation.
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