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Lawrence Liang’s Speech at JNU Alternative Classroom – Annotated

Lawrence Liang legal researcher, lawyer and co founder of the Alternative Law Forum based in Bangalore. He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. Picture of Lawrence is by Joi Ito is distributed under CC BY 2.0. He recently lectured at JNU Alternative Classroom. It was a brilliant lecture...

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State of Political Conversations Online

I have blogged for a decade and been writing about politics for a while. But this year has been different, not just because more Indians are online and on social media. But also because there is more bullying (trolls) online this time. I have seen more of them on twitter than anywhere else....

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Conflict of Interest and Indian Parliament

This post is not about MPs having conflict of interest. That is a different discussion and some thought has gone into that. What I want to talk about is the Parliament in itself having conflict of interest. Let me elaborate. Parliament (Legislature) in a democracy is elected by people and hence derive their...

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Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that...

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Of course Minister

Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid thinks PRISM is nothing to worry about. In his own words “This is not scrutiny and access to actual messages. It is only computer analysis of patterns of calls and emails that are being sent. It is not actually snooping on specifically on content of anybody’s message...

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Why AskYourGovt.in ?

For a long time, we (the so-called middle class) didn’t have access to the ruling and administrative classes. We couldn’t ask them questions directly and they didn’t care about us. We were dependent on journalists to question politicians and politicians in turn to question the bureaucracy. It never worked for us. Journalists never...