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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI movement tells its story in Aruna's book

RTI movement tells its story in Aruna's book

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published Published on May 2, 2018   modified Modified on May 2, 2018
-Civil Society News

New Delhi: People’s movements represent multiple hopes and efforts. As they stretch over time, who did what and when or how something happened or didn’t gets forgotten. Chroniclers are needed, but hard to find. If they come from within it is most likely they won’t be objective and if they are on the outside chances are that empathy and understanding will be missing.

The right to information movement has happily overcome this challenge. Aruna Roy and the MKSS Collective have produced a balanced and well-documented book on the movement, which, after long years of struggle and many ups and downs, finally gave India a robust right to information law.  

It hasn’t been an easy story to tell because the movement drew its strength from multiple efforts. But the book brings them together fluently and nicely, without the hiccups that could have come from hubris and self-praise.

Roy gives us an honest and professionally put together document. It is objective and dispassionately structured and allows us to access the movement in its many parts. The text is Roy’s but many shoulders have been put to the wheel. Roli Books, as could be expected, has done a great job in bringing it out.

The RTI movement’s story is inherently a dramatic one because people at the poorest and weakest levels of the economy experienced what it takes to hold powerful governments to account. That a law should have resulted from this unequal confrontation and found tens and thousands of users gives the RTI story the makings of a bestseller.

In 1987 Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Shankar and his wife, Anshi, moved into a hut in Devdungri, an obscure village near Bhim in Rajasthan, to work for some of India’s poorest and most marginalised communities.  Roy had then resigned from the IAS, Dey had abandoned a college degree in America and Shankar, a local, had struggled his way to becoming a graduate. The village was mystified by their presence.

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Civil Society News, April, 2018, http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/event/rti-movement-tells-its-story-in-arunas-book/


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