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The philosophy blog with the highest Alexa rank, according to blogmetrics.org, is an interesting political commentary blog called Sanjeev Sabhlok’s revolutionary blog. Sabhlok is a man from India who writes passionate political opinion pieces promoting good government policy in India. According to his autobiography on his page, he served in an elite branch of the Indian Government before resigning in 2001. Since then, he has spent his time “managing public policy projects and large organizations on behalf of governments in India, and by providing public policy advice and managing rather smallish public policy projects in Australia.” Now he is a political philosopher and Indian politician. 

His most recent post, from March 16^th, discusses the issues of censorship and free speech in India. The post advocates the Swarna Bharat Party, which according to him is “India’s only liberal party, committed to defending liberty and promoting prosperity.” This is an interesting post that highlights how different Indian culture is from the West. Mr. Sabhlok, having spent a lot of time working and living in Australia, and being a highly educated person, is aware of the differences and writes many blog posts to spread awareness. This particular posts starts out with a dark joke (“Please share widely IF YOU CARE FOR YOUR FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY. (If you are committed to your own slavery and poverty, please do nothing.)”) which, in addition to catching the attention of the reader, shows the passion that Sabhlok has for these issues and the weight that these issues carry. Sabhlok asserts that the Indian Censor Board, the government organization responsible for censoring movies and literature deemed too violent or obscene, is oppressive of the free will of the Indian people, and that it is an insult which supposes that the Indian people cannot think for themselves. 

Other posts by Mr. Sabhlok cover issues of unnecessary police violence and corruption. On March 12^th he wrote a blog about the death of a woman in who he claims was in police custody at the time of her death. She had been arrested under suspicion of terrorism, and, according to Sabhlok, after “eight hours of research and analysis” he determined that she must have been in police custody at the time of her death and that police staged the incident that was reported as a cover up. The post is very long, detailing the research that Sabhlok had done to reach his conclusion. Aside from the specifics of this particular incident, the message of this post is that police have no right to kill anyone that they have detained regardless of what that person in charged for, and that it is a terrible crime to deny a person his right to prove his own innocence. This post shows the amount that Sabhlok values fairness, honesty, and equality under the law. 

Mr. Sabhlok posts a few times a week on all sorts of social/political topics from defending GMOs to attacking socialism. His blog is called sabhlokcity.com. WARNING: graphic images of deceased bodies on the March 16^th post.