Lessons from a Tiger Ride And the difficult residues of the Lokpal movement for civil society (as published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 9, Issue 02, Dated 14 Jan 2012) 2011 HAS been a tumultuous year dominated by the failed attempt to pass a law that was supposed to sort out all our problems. While the [...]

Excerpts From An Interview (as published in First Post, Jan 6, 2012) 2011 was a year when civil society took on a very publicly adversarial position to the government in order to press for a comprehensive and stringent anti-corruption law to be passed. It is, of course, a strategy very different from the one you’ve [...]

Excerpts From An Interview (as published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 50, Dated 17 Dec 2011) What do you think of what’s been made public of the new draft Lokpal Bill? Broadly we have welcomed the new draft, but we have some concerns and some non-negotiables. Unfortunately, the two non-negotiables that we have still [...]

Enough of grievance, it’s now time to address them by Gaia von Hatzfeldt (as published in Tehelka 19 December 2011) With the Parliament’s winter session in full progress, the media is saturated, once again, with heated debates around the Lokpal Bill. With apprehension one awaits to see if at all, in what form, the Parliament [...]