India’s capital becomes a bastion of male power
The Aam Aadmi Party made a huge deal out of women's safety. Women were among those campaigning for AAP on the streets. Taking out rallys. Yet the 46% …
Politics
AAP needs to find ways to make the fight against corruption more relevant to the common man
I have said this before, but it bears repeating. The common man of India does not care much about corruption. They care about what the bottom line is …
Lok Sabha Elections, Electronic Voting Machines and persistent whispers of EVM rigging #updated
That Electronic Voting Machines are not tamper proof has been well established, including by the High Court of Delhi judgment on the Public Interest L…
The Shattered Dome and reflections on Indian politics
The Caravan has published yet another of its very excellent mini-novel grade stories. This time around the Operation Blue star by Hartosh Singh Bal. F…
If only Pirate Party patented crowd sourced manifestos
Making this quick and painless. Today, supporters of two Indian political parties claimed to be the first political party to have crowd sourced manife…
Save RTI: The name and shame map for MPs on RTI for parties
A group of NRIs did what us local call people didn't. They called up hundreds of MPs to rally opposition to the UPA governments attempts to amend the …
Why Arun Jaitley’s notice to the blogger is a good thing
Arun Jaitley's advocate, Pratibha Singh has sent a legal notice to blogger Prashant Panday and Arun Jaitley has posted it on his personal website as w…
Save India, save RTI #SaveRTI
India is rapidly becoming a country lost in depression. With over a hundred bills pending, the opposition staging walkouts like it was a fashion show …
7 Sep 2012
Transcript: Why Democracy – P. Sainath
The following is the transcript of snippets of P. Sainath's insights on democracy. I think there is much to think of here. Many thanks Atul Hirde for …