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Menaced by neighbours, activist remains defiant

-The Times of India Seventy-year-old Kalyanasundaram's face wears a permanent look of defiance. Popularly known as 'Thagaval Thaatha', a veteran of over 300 applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, he faces threats from close to home - his neighbours.  Kalyanasundaram, who gathered with 50 other people from the city on Link Road in Egmore on Sunday morning in response to Anna Hazare's call for a day-long nationwide hunger fast, says his neighbours are upset that he refused to pay a bribe to officials for a water connection. He filed an RTI application in January on Metrowater connections to his locality instead of paying off officials of the utility.  "People in my area have an understanding with Metrowater officials who do not provide connections unless bribes are paid," Kalyanasundaram says. "Since my petition exposed the fact that Metrowater officials were paid bribes by people in my neighbourhood, my neighbours have warned me not to leave my house or file any pleas without their knowledge."  Kalyanasundaram filed his first RTI petition in 2006 immediately after the legislation was passed. However, the plea questioned the logic behind the law. "The government was short of 1,50,000 people, so I asked on what basis the legislation was passed. How can overworked officials provide information and then be fined Rs 25,000 for delays?" he had asked. The application led to a videoconference with national information commissioner Nithyanand Mishra and 15 others in the committee.  Today every sub-registrar office has drinking water and bathroom facilities thanks to an RTI Kalyanasundaram filed five years ago. He is now campaigning for a bathroom to be built in the B4 Perambur Police station. "It is atrocious that constables have to cross the road to relieve themselves," he says.  Like Kalyanasundaram, others at the protest rally also face threats for using the RTI Act. Anvardheen faces a criminal complaint for threatening few metal scrap shop owners on Dr Natesan Road, whose commercial licences he had questioned through an RTI petition.  "The corporation admitted they did not have licences and sealed the shops. Three days later they reopened and when we filed another RTI petition, they lodged a false complaint with the police," he said. Demands for protection to be given to RTI activists have grown louder after S Bhuvaneshwaran was killed in the city two months ago for trying to reclaim 18 acres of land belonging to his family that had been grabbed by the land mafia.