NEW DELHI, January 13, 2012 — Over the past 10 months, India has witnessed a series of movements for change that have highlighted the importance of how dissent is expressed and received in democracies ...

Starting from a tiny village in the deserts of Rajasthan in the 1980s, Aruna Roy began a long campaign to bring transparency to India's notoriously corrupt bureaucracy. Its signal achievement is the ...

NEW DELHI, January 13, 2012 — Excerpts: social and political activist Aruna Roy argues for managed, nuanced dissent as a necessary part of any democratic society, particularly one as large and ...

Aruna Roy is a Founder-Member, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghathan (MKSS), National Campaign to People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), and the School for Democracy (SFD). She was with the IAS from ...