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		<title>At The Heart Of All Resistance Is A Desire For Self-determination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was written on Nov 14 (before NY and LA eviction) for some other purpose. I saved it planning to do a longer comprehensive piece, which didn&#8217;t happen. The Arab Spring demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Morocco were hailed in much of the democratic world. However the Occupy Wall Street protests, &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/at-the-heart-of-all-resistance-is-a-desire-for-self-determination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1328&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Transparency?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aruna Roy and Ruchi Gupta (Also published in The Tribune) In a span of mere weeks, the Corporate Affairs Minister, the Law Minister and the Prime Minister have all fired salvos at the Right to Information Act. The popularly acclaimed RTI Act 2005, brought in by their own government, has been charged with “transgressing into &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/too-much-transparency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1318&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just noticed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[External Affairs Minister SM Krishna&#8217;s asset declaration claims only Rs 22 Lakhs (savings worth Rs 12 Lakhs). In 2009, he stayed at the Maurya for 3 months &#8211; in the Presidential Suite. And apparently paid for it with his own money. Even at a grossly underestimated Rs 25K a night, it will amount to Rs. &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/just-noticed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1300&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing The Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 13th day of Anna’s fast, the Parliament agreed to a “sense of the house” resolution, endorsing in principle, all three demands of the Anna camp. Anna called off his fast, and announced that it was time for jashn. Newspapers too cheered. “People’s Democracy” proclaimed one headline; “Anna Wins It For the People”, declared &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/reviewing-the-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1276&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing the NAC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the Seminar, July 2011 The past couple of months have seen a renewed attack on the National Advisory Council (NAC). The NAC has been decried as an unconstitutional, undemocratic, “super-cabinet” where unaccountable “jholawalas” hatch harebrained schemes guaranteed to run the government aground. Another line of criticism has focused on the process of the &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/deconstructing-the-nac/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1262&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the &#8220;Jan&#8221; in the Lokpal Bill</title>
		<link>http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/putting-the-jan-in-the-lokpal-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 05:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikhil Dey and Ruchi Gupta, MKSS  Published in The Tribune on May 16, 2011  Note: This review is based on the JLP ver 2.2 dated Apr 20, 2011 For many who quite rightly guessed that the Lokpal Bill drafted by the Government would be a non starter, the alternative merited automatic support. However, little was &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/putting-the-jan-in-the-lokpal-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1238&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Newspaper That Sold Its Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Listen to the two recordings at the end of this post An editor of a leading news magazine called Indian Express, &#8220;the voice of big business&#8221;. There&#8217;s also the alleged sponsorship by Mukesh Ambani. The pro-corporate anti-poor agenda is apparent in all Indian Express reportage &#8211; from the &#8220;educational&#8221; full page spread on BT-Brinjal, &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/the-newspaper-that-sold-its-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1200&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As The Means, So The End</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the four-day revolution starts to wind down, the internal contradictions are coming to the fore. At its heart is the uncomfortable question that the phenomenon which has been variously termed as the second freedom struggle, a victory of and for the people has itself fallen short of democratic ideals. Political equality is at the &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/as-the-means-so-the-end/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No wonder Chidambaram is such a BJP favorite</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the cables released today (S/Noforn) In Mueller&#8217;s view, one of the most crucial elements in combating terrorism is integration of the legal and law enforcement function with the intelligence function (emphasis added), which not only allows pursuit of cases after the crime but also an improved capacity to prevent crime. He referred &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/no-wonder-chidambaram-is-such-a-bjp-favorite/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1185&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Years of RTI – An Expanding Narrative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short review of the literature around RTI after the Act was passed, written for the Convention Souvenir. Do download the soft copy, almost certainly the first time something so slick has come out of these types of Conventions! (All credit to Nat and Tarun, in Shillong) Five Years of RTI – An Expanding Narrative[i] &#8230; <a href="http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/five-years-of-rti-%e2%80%93-an-expanding-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5976519&amp;post=1181&amp;subd=bourgeoisinspirations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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