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:
Freedom Team India (FTI)
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 byFTI mailing lists and member management
June 6th, 2009 byTHIS 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
Are you a Liberal?
May 9th, 2009 byIt 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.
Please read this before applying to join FTI
May 8th, 2009 bySTEP 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.
FTI Inquiries Questions Suggestions
April 18th, 2009 byDear 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
Who can join the Freedom Team of India
April 17th, 2009 byStep 1: Please read this document (and associated documents) first.
Step 2: After that, confirm your agreement with each of the requirements/conditions in the table below. Having done that, you will be taken to a simple application form for the submission. After your form is received by the Team, a Team member will get in touch with you. Please lodge your application only once. It may take some time for our members to respond to the application, given we are all volunteers, but we take care to get in touch with everyone as soon as we can. If you don’t hear within 14 days please write to sabhlok at yahoo dot com.
AGE LIMIT: From 31 August, 2009, a new requirement has been imposed – that to apply for FTI membership the applicant must be above the age of 21. Please ensure you meet the age requirement on the date of submitting your application.
Policy snippets – parked or disputed
April 4th, 2009 byThis section has been removed from the main FTI site today (4 April 2009) to avoid misunderstandings among passing visitors. The aim is to resolve these matters and convert them to regular FTI policy, after which this blog can be deleted.
Religious Freedom and Tolerance – for public comment
April 28th, 2009 byDear 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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