An app beats court

APP>> Gay Rights • Russia/USA

Children's swaraj

Karnataka turns governance into child's play with kids' assemblies

Panchayats, European style

Walmart and the other America

Exposing the rhetoric behind campaign for consumer rights

CAPART up for overhaul

Funding agency for rural NGOs may be on its last legs

Centre-state collusion

Why political justice is ignored in countering Naxalism in Chhattisgarh

English distress

Language>> Litigation • Japan

Battle over paper

Newsprint>> Politics • Argentina

A deal for votes

2013-14 might see expansion or monetisation of development schemes in run-up to election

Confusion over RTI persists

Do PPP ventures come under RTI Act? Planning Commission says not its call

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Civil society & politics

Ready for guillotining?

People’s manifesto

Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto

News Snippets

My god v your resource

Recent Supreme Court order in Vedanta case holds hope for tribal community life

Cooperative in spirit

Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model

‘Citizens must not just blame the government but criticise it’

Public policy expert Rajendra Pratap Gupta speaks about his new book

Andhra in a fix over quota

Cancels local body polls as court says reservation can’t exceed 50%

Streamlining autonomy

Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

The swing

More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas

Pills for polls

The free medicine scheme in Rajasthan may benefit Congress

The power of intermediaries

Move to rein in Internet censorship falters; ISPs continue to block websites

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