Rights and Wrongs of it : The Right to Information
Contents: 1. Keeping the democratic system alive: Fighting for the Right to Know in India/Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey. 2. The fight must go on/Mahasveta Devi. 3. Pulling the wool over our eyes/Sankha Ghosh. 4. Changing the Culture of Secrecy worldwide/Stefan Mentschel. 5. Information on sale/Trinanjan Chakraborty and Abhijit Kundu. 6. The quest for participant citizenship/Santanu Chacraverti. 7. New media and the Right to Know/Buroshiva Dasgupta. 8. Empowerment through information/Snehasis Sur. 9. Information and the linguistic welfare of parliament/Ashok Mitra. 10. Who will bell the cat?/Tarun Ganguly. 11. The acid test/Nityapriya Ghosh. 12. Limits of transparency--cultural and institutional/Asit Ranjan Bandyopadhyay. 13. Choices vs. essentials: David and Goliath/Sumit Bandyopadhyay. 14. Given with one hand and taken away by another/Gautam Ray. 15. Media and militancy in Northeast India/Anirban Roy. 16. Social audit and enhanced effectiveness of public policies/I. Ramabrahmam and C. Jeevan Kumar. 17. For the Right Kind of Communication/Dipankar Sinha. 18. Justice in a corrupt society?/Dipankar Dasgupta. 19. Matter of attitude/Sukanta Chaudhuri. 20. Eggs, media and the Official Secrets Act/Sujit Chakraborty. 21. Secrets, state secrets and the citizen/Subir Ghosh. 22. Representative democracy or direct democracy?/Arvind Kejriwal. 23. The current situation in Bangladesh/Manusher Janno: NGO. Notes on contributors. Annexures.
