Freedom Team India (FTI)

How to make a donation

November 23rd, 2009 by

Freedom 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. Note that donations to FTI do not yet qualify for 50% exemption from Income Tax under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. FTI aims to seek such authorisation.

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.

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FTI’s strategy

November 14th, 2009 by

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FTI's political model

This ONE PAGE document summarises what FTI aims to do. It is about FTI's political model and strategy.

Powerpoint 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.

Addendum

Please read the following blog posts by Sanjeev Sabhlok, that clarify FTI strategy: here, here, and here.

 

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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, 2009 by

The 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:

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FTI mailing lists and member management

June 6th, 2009 by

THIS 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

6) FTI Finance Committee

7) FTI Disciplinary Committee

8. FTI ARMC

9) FTI Adharshila

10) Adharshila Steering Committee

11) FTI General Body

12) Freedom Partners

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Are you a Liberal?

May 9th, 2009 by

It 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.

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Please read this before applying to join FTI

May 8th, 2009 by

STEP 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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Religious Freedom and Tolerance – for public comment

April 28th, 2009 by

Dear Visitor,

This policy has been released on 29 April 2009 for public comment.

Please note that FTI releases the same policy on two blogs.

a) The first blog (this one) is for public comment, through the comments box at the bottom of this blog. All FTI policies will remain drafts until formally agreed to by at least 1500 FTI leaders in the coming years. Your comments will inform the development of these policies, but it will not always be feasible for FTI members to directly debate with you on this blog.

b) On the second blog (here) only FTI members are able to comment, but you are invited to read the discussions on that blog. The reason why the ‘FTI member only’ blog is in the public domain is to give you a broad sense of how this policy was arrived at how it is evolving. Every new FTI member has FULL rights to influence the policy.
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FTI Inquiries Questions Suggestions

April 18th, 2009 by

Dear Visitor

This blog aims to address your inquiries and questions, and is also a place for you to provide suggestions for improvement of FTI.

Discussions on Shantanu's blog :

At the formation of FTI, many questions and answers were discussed on Shantanu's blog (here). The complete discussion as at 19 April 2009 is now available for download as a Word document here:

FAQ

In addition, we have attempted to answer questions at the FTI FAQ.

All this is clearly work in progress, and many of these answers can change as better answers are found. However, this is a beginning.

In any event, if the material referred to above doesn't address your questions, please do not hesitate to ask questions or otherwise provide comment.

Please do note that FTI blogs are moderated (very lightly, though: ie. only for decency and appropriateness, not for ideas).

With regards

Freedom Team

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