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A monthly Review of clippings on Critical Issues & Concerns for NGOs, Activists
and others concerned with Justice & Social Change
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RIGHT TO INFORMATION
September 2008	R.I.P. For The R.T.I.?, Chandrani Banerjee, Outlook Magazine, 22 Sep 2008 If I Fail, Please Abuse Me, Smruti Koppikar, Outlook Magazine, 22 Sep 2008 Towards an informed choice, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, The Hindu, Chennai, 05 Sep 2008
August 2008	Activists seek plan to reduce RTI delays, Vlju B, The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Aug 2008 Filing an RTI query? Be prepared to wait, Viju B, The Times of India, Mumbai, 22 Aug 2008 Right or not, info still hard to come by, Avijit Ghosh, The Times of India,Mumbai, 06 Aug 2008 Delhi babu fined Rs 25k for delay, Avijit Ghosh, The Times of India,Mumbai, 06 Aug 2008
May 2008	Blow to RTI Act from legislature, judiciary, Manoj Mitra, The Times of India, Mumbai, 01 May 2008 Judiciary should go for transparency, not secrecy, Suchi Pande, Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy The Hindu, Chennai, 07 May 2008, The brinjal battles, , The Telegraph, Calcutta, 14 May 2008, Political parties` I-T returns to be under RTI Act, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 01 May 2008 Lawyers use RTI to build cases, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 01 May 2008, The 'national secret' excuse, Neelesh Misra, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 20 May 2008 RTI magic wand for villagers, Chetan Chauhan, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 23 May 2008
April 2008	Govt plans Rs 300-cr push for RTI, Aloke Tikku, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 28 Apr 2008 Judiciary under RTI Act: MPs, The Times of India, Mumbai, 30 Apr 2008 20,000 RTI queries stonewalled: Report, The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Apr 2008 Application shows RTI law is under-publicized, Khushboo Narayan, MINT, Mumbai, 24 Apr 2008 Killing RTI,with silence, MINT, Mumbai, 25 Apr 2008 Central Info panel clueless on RTI pleas, Abhinav Garg, The Times of India, Mumbai, 04 Apr 2008
October 2007	Two Years of Info Power, Viju B, The Times Of India, Bombay, 09 Oct 2007 Govt yet to live up to key RTI promise,K.P. Narayana Kumar, MINT, Bombay, 01 Oct 2007 Two years on, RTI empowers lakhs, Viju B, The Times Of India, Bombay, 11 Oct 2007 Secrets and Laws, The Times Of India, Bombay, 17 Oct 2007
July 2007	For your information , O P Kejariwal, THE TIMES OF INDIA, BOMBAY, 18 JUL 2007 The hazards of using RTI Act , Y G.Muralidharan, THE HINDU, MADRAS, 01 JUL 2007 Is it counter-productive?, Balraj Puri, THE DECCAN HERALD, BANGALORE, 26 JUL 2007
June 2007	RTI Changing Power Equations, Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze & Nikhil Dey, Civil Society Magazine, 01 Jun 2007 RTI Act Suffers From Funds Shortage, Namrata Biji Ahuja, The Asian Age, Bombay, 18 Jun 2007 The Right To Information Act: Need For Awareness,Cyriac Joseph, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 23 Jun 2007
September 2006	Messing with RTI, Business India Magazine, 10 September 2006 Crusader for change, The Hindu, Madras, 23 September 2006
August 2006	This round to the RTI, The Hindu, Madras, 24 August 2006 Loss of a right, Arvind Kejriwal, The Times of India, Bombay, 17 August 2006 Last Rites: Will RTI Die Prematurely?, Mihir Srivastava, Tehelka Magazine, 26 August 2006
July 2006	How the govt’s curbing your right to know, The Times of India, Bombay, 29 July 2006 RTI law mutilated, Arvind Kejriwal,The Times of India, Bombay, 24 July 2006 A big step backwards,The Hindu, Madras, 24 July 2006
March 2006	Right to info legitimises our right to question, Aruna Roy, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 19th March 2006 The Right to Deny Information, Mihir Srivastava, Tehelka Magaine, 11th March 2006

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