It has been a year of seething people's movements and unprecedented direct action on the street. What does this...
THE CABINET has cleared the Citizens Charter and Grievance Redressal Bill and tabled it in Parliament. Activist Nikhil Dey...
Arvind Kejriwal, CBI, Citizens Charter and Grievance Redressal Bill, corruption, Delhi Public Services Delivery Bill, FIR, grievance redressal, Information Commissioners, Janata Sahitya Kendra, Lokayukta, MGNREGA, Nikhil Dey, Parliament, PM, Prashant Bhushan, Public Services Act, Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras, RTI, Shoma Chaudhury, Team Anna, vigilance, volume 8 issue 52
Where do the battles for earth, water and sky end? Dayamani Barla and Aruna Roy in conversation with Shoma...
Activist, adivasis, agriculture, Arcelor Mittal, Aruna Roy, Bokaro electro-steel company, coal, Communist Party of South Africa, community values, dam, Dayamani Barla, displaced, employment, foreign investment, Forest, Goa, heritage, Hindu, iron ore, Jeremy Cronin, Jharkhand, Land Acquisition Act, lopsided development, Mahatma Gandhi, minerals, Muslim, policy, politicians, polluted river, Post-Independence, rivers, Sanjay Dubey, SEZ, Shoma Chaudhury, Sikh, steel plant, Tehelka THiNK Fest 2011, tribals, Volume 8 issue 51, water
In the midst of a hectic day in Parliament, Arun Jaitley met Ashok Malik and Shoma Chaudhury to make...
A Raja, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Anna Hazare, anti-corruption, Arun Jaitley, Aruna Roy, Ashok Malik, BJP, British Parliament, CBI, CII, civil society, constitution, consultative democracy, corruption, debate, Emergency, FDI, FICCI, fiscal deficit, judiciary, Lashkar-e-Toiba, LK Advani, Lok Sabha, Lokpal, NCPRI, NGOs, Nitin Gadkari, Parliament, Pranab Mukherjee, Product Patent Bill, Rajya Sabha, Ramlila Maidan, reforms, right-wing, RSS, Shoma Chaudhury, social spending, Team Anna, UPA-2, Upper House, Volume 8 issue 51, VP Singh, watchdog, Winter Session
The first edition of THiNK brought together an electric range of cutting-edge voices from across the globe. A reading...
Recently there have been several malicious articles against Tehelka. Such peddling of lies needs to be confronted once before...
The cash-for-votes scam has had strange fallouts. An arrest one could never have imagined. And some political grandstanding that...
The charade of Anna Hazare’s arrest exposes a government bankrupt of political ideas. But there are some lessons there...
2G scam, Adarsh housing scam, AK Antony, Anna Hazare, anti-corruption movement, anti-displacement agitations, anti-POSCO, Arab Spring, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Arun Jaitley, Aruna Roy, Arundhati Roy, Arvind Kejriwal, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, authoritarianism, Ayodhya, Azad Maidan, Baba Ramdev, Binayak Sen, black money, Brinda Karat, Central Vigilance Commission, Centre for Policy Research, Chawla Committee report, Chidambaram, Christian movement, civil disobedience movements, civil liberties, civil society, communalism, Communists, Congress minister, corruption, CRPC, CWG, Delhi Police, Doordarshan, draconian, Egypt, EMS Namboodiripad, fascists, food riots, Forbesganj, Gandhian topi, Grievance Redressal Bill, harassment of whistleblowers, Harsud, Hazare campaign, hunger strike, Irom Sharmila, Jairam Ramesh, Jan Sangh, Jantar Mantar, Jayalalithaa, Jayaprakash Narayan, Judicial Accountability and Standards Bill, Justice AP Shah, Kalinganagar, Kapil Sibal, Karunanidhi, Kerala, Kiran Bedi, Lalgarh, Lalu Yadav, Leader of the Opposition, Lokayuktas, Lokpal, Lokpal Joint Drafting Committee, Madhu Trehan, Mamata Banerjee, Mandal, Manish Tewari, Manmohan Singh, Maoists, Mayawati, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, MKSS, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nandigram, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Naveen Patnaik, Naxalite movement, NCPRI, Nitish Kumar, Niyamgiri, Odisha, ombudsman, Parliament Standing Committee, POSCO, Pramod Mahajan, Pranab Mukherjee, Prashant Bhushan, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Public Procurement Bill, Rajya Sabha, Representation of People Act, Revati Laul, RK Singh, Salwa Judum, Santosh Hegde, Shankar Sharma, Shanti Bhushan, Sharad Pawar, Shoma Chaudhury, Singur, Sonia Gandhi, Syria, Team Anna, the socialist parties, Trinamool Congress, Union Home Secretary, UPA government, urban intellectual circles, Vikram Lall, Volume 8 Issue 34, whistleblowers, Whistleblowers’ Protection Bill, yeddyurappa, Yogendra Yadav
The Lokpal Bill is in danger of skidding off the rails. As it is introduced in Parliament, eminent activist...
Anna Hazare, anti-corruption, Aruna Roy, Comptroller and Auditor General, corrupt NGOs, corruption, grievance redressal mechanism, Irom Sharmila, Jan Lokpal Bill, joint drafting committee, Judicial Accountability Bill, Karnataka Lokayukta report, Kashif Masood, Lokayukta, Lokpal, Lokpal Bill, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Medha Patkar, NAC, NCPRI, Nikhil Dey, NREGA minimum wage, RTI, Shailendra Pandey, Shoma Chaudhury, Team Anna, the CBI exclusion from RTI, The Lokpal Imbroglio, Tushar Mane, UID, Vijay Pandey, Volume 8 Issue 32, Whistleblower Protection Act, whistleblowers
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