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The Tunnel’s Last Mile by Neelabh Mishra

I am not unduly worried by the muck being hurled at non-government members of the government-notified drafting panel for the Lokpal Bill and recall the beginning of the village-based RTI movement in 1996 in Rajasthan. One of the ridiculous allegations against the agitation leaders was that they had received a hefty commission from a Japanese manufacturer of photocopiers who would profit hugely from the demand for photocopied panchayat documents if...

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Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial by Savvy Soumya Misra

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is rooting for endosulfan just before the fifth Conference of Parties (COP) of the Stockholm Convention meets in Geneva from April 25 to April 30 to decide the fate of the pesticide. There seems to be a pattern in Pawar’s resistance to banning endosulfan. Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha on February...

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‘Mukesh Ambani's house gets 5 lakh litres of water a month' by Vinaya Deshpande

Says the Corporation in reply to a RTI query on ‘Antilia' The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai supplies nearly five lakh litres of water to Reliance industries' chairperson and managing director Mukesh Ambani's house ‘Antilia' every month, the reply to a question under the Right to Information Act has revealed. ‘Antilia' is Mr. Ambani's 27-floor house in south Mumbai. It, reportedly, is one of the most expensive personal residences in the world. Water...

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Aruna Roy, MKSS activist and member of the NAC interviewed by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

WHILE maintaining her support for a Lokpal institution, Aruna Roy, a prominent civil rights activist and a member of the National Advisory Council, took a critical position in respect of the Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by the activists of the India Against Corruption campaign. A recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2000, she heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (a trade union of workers and peasants)...

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Saga of struggles by Lyla Bavadam

NEARLY 80 km from Pune is Ralegan Siddhi village with about 3,000 people. It would have been one among the hundreds of nondescript villages in Parner taluk of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, had it not been for Kisan Baburao Hazare, 71, better known as Anna, or older brother, a title that was appended to his name after he made the village more than just a dot on the map. Until he was...

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