For the record

Pulling a fast one

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Focus not on graft

Corruption is not just the kind that has found recent media attention

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Rhyme and reason

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Feeble Rights

Rights-based governance has not been accompanied by effective delivery mechanism

The official bully

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Children's swaraj

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

Back to print

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An app beats court

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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

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Battle over paper

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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