The RTI Story: Power to the People is the story of a campaign that evolved into a genuine and vibrant people’s movement... Written by Aruna Roy with the MKSS collective, this book is for everyone who asks questions, seeks answers to fight corruption and injustice and challenges arbitrary power.
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‘‘ब्यावर की गलियों से उठकर राज्य की विधानसभा से होते हुए संसद के सदनों और उसके पार विकसित होते एक जनान्दोलन को मैंने बड़े उत्साह के साथ देखा है... पारदर्शिता, समता और प्रतिष्ठा की लड़ाई आज भी जारी है..।’
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Magsaysay Award-winning social activist Aruna Roy's remarkably forthright memoir is the story of two parallel journeys... her recollections are marked with stories of resilient individuals and communities and their extraordinary resistance to oppression.
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हम भारत के लोग: लोकतंत्र की बुनियाद और अधिकारों की स्थापना निर्विवाद सार्वभौमिक अधिकारों के अंकुरण और विकास की प्रक्रिया, तथा भारत में उन्हें मूर्त अधिकारों के रूप में स्थापित किए जाने का विश्लेषण करती है। यह पुस्तक इन अधिकारों को स्थापित करने, उन्हें प्राप्त करने और संरक्षित रखने की निरंतर चुनौतियों पर भी विचार करती है।
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Who are the people of India? What are their rights? What are their claims on the Indian Constitution and on democracy? As a part of Samruddha Bharat Foundation's series Rethinking India, We the People brings together a collection of essays that explores the interesting process of the germination and growth of undisputed universal rights, and of them being developed as tangible entitlements in India. The essays also examine the continuing challenge of establishing, realizing and protecting these entitlements.
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Democracy is hailed around the world as the highest form of political organisation. However, transparency, accountability, and participation, key to a functioning democracy, has globally come under increasing threat. With rising statelessness across the world, the concept of citizenship itself is now under question. Unpacking Participatory Democracy offers some ‘inclusive’ approaches to the ideas of development and democracy. This volume brings together a range of practitioners who have spent decades building organisations and collectives that engage with the practice of democracy, in pursuit of equality and justice. Together, they explore the realities of democratic practice, and combine theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies.
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Democracy is hailed around the world as the highest form of political organisation. However, transparency, accountability, and participation, key to a functioning democracy, has globally come under increasing threat. With rising statelessness across the world, the concept of citizenship itself is now under question. Unpacking Participatory Democracy offers some ‘inclusive’ approaches to the ideas of development and democracy. Pitted against increasing global intolerance and exclusion, this volume asks: What is participatory democracy? Why is it important? What are the implications of participation within cultural, political, social, economic, religious, and secular contexts? The authors come from diverse fields: academia, media, politics, and social activism.
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