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Vaccines for Democracy: Jan Lok Pal Bill, a Morality Tale

Vaccines for Democracy: Jan Lok Pal Bill, a Morality Tale

19 November 2011

| Society & Public Issues

What are the ideas that drive these liberal voices, and the civil movement they have organised? How are they speaking truth to power? Lokpal activist Arvind Kejriwal & NCPRI’s Shekhar Singh explains how accountability is the only vaccine for an ailing democratic machinery.

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