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16 August 2013, India America Today

Liberalism as enlightened capitalism

India America Today published Tony Fernandes' article that was a part of the Gateway House's Liberal Agenda publication. India-America Today is a news organisation focusing on India and Indian American subjects. He argued that both the private sector and the government must equally do their parts to create an equitable India to sustain economic growth for generations.

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“That government is best which governs least” – Henry David Thoreau, ‘Civil Disobedience’.

Thoreau’s essay, including the above aphorism, resonated powerfully with a then-young Indian lawyer in South Africa. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, embarking on his satyagraha movement, even translated the essay for Indian readers. Gandhi believed deeply in empowering the individual and the communities of India. His vision was of a vibrant democracy whose economic prowess would stem from the nation’s multitude of villages, which housed the majority of Indians. It was a fundamentally different world view than the Fabian Socialism of independent India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

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