THE LOKPAL DEBATE

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A Lokpal for India

Seminar, Number 625: Combating Corruption, September 2011.

Satyen Bordoloi, Is The Jan Lokpal Bill A Farce? Interview with Usha Ramanathan, YouTube.com, September 15, 2011.

Rajni Bakshi, India’s democracy: Evolution, not Revolution, Gateway House, September 14, 2011.

Sandeep Dongre, Why I Cannot Support The Jan Lokpal: A Detailed Analysis, Countercurrents.org, September 10, 2011.

Amita Baviskar, A tale of two movements, Times of India, September 6, 2011.

Amit Bhaduri, Corruption and Representative Democracy, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLVI No.36, September 3, 2011.

Jan Lokpal Bill is very regressive: Arundhati Roy, CNN-IBN, August 31, 2011.

Walk the Talk with Aruna Roy, August 30, 2011. Transcript here.
Also from NDTV Profit: Power of One special: Lokpal Civil Society Divide.

Groundreport India, Videos on National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) version of Lokpal Bill (English & Hindi), August 27, 2011.

Against Corruption = Against Politics: Partha Chatterjee, Kafila.org, August 28, 2011.

Gail Omvedt, Tired of democracy? Roundtable India, August 25, 2011.

Nivedita Menon, We should be there: The Left and the Anna moment, Kafila.org, August 20, 2011.
Response: Gautam Bhan, Many Halves of a Split Screen, Kafila.org, August 22, 2011.

NDTV.com, We the People: ANNA AND THE GREAT INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS, August 21, 2011.

Arundhati Roy, I'd rather not be Anna, The Hindu, August 21, 2011.

apoorvanand, Resisting The Popular, Kafila.org, August 21, 2011.

The Anti-Corruption Crusade, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLVI No.34 August 20, 2011.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Time to step back, Indian Express, August 16, 2011.

Nagendar Sharma, Break Lokpal into 5 Institutions: Roy, Hindustan Times, August 15, 2011.

Nitin Pai/Acorn, FAQ: Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal is a bad idea, August 14, 2011.

Shoma Chaudhury, The Third Flight Path, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 32, August 13, 2011.

Aruna Roy slams lack of public debate on Lokpal, Indian Express, August 11, 2011.

Aruna for PM under Lokpal, Times of India, August 7, 2011.

Lokpal Bill: Aruna Roy and NCPRI's suggestions, CNN-IBN (The same documents are also on this page.)

Himanshi Dhawan, Civil society wants concrete graft law, Times of India, August 6, 2011.

"Beautiful People - Aruna Roy." CNBC, August 6, 2011. Part One Part Two Part Three

Rajeev Chandresekhar, Not even a dent!, India Together, August 2011.

Ranjit Jamwal, ‘It is up to govt to respond to demands,' Statesman, July 29, 2011.

Himanshi Dhawan, Aruna Roy camp lobbies for own Lokpal draft, Times of India, July 27, 2011.

Social audit committee for multiple institutions in Lokpal, Times News Network, Times of India, July 26, 2011.

Bharat Dogra, Towards A Rainbow of Anti-Corruption Measures: NCPRI’s ‘Doable’ Proposals Bring New Hope, Mainstream, VOL XLIX No 31, July 23, 2011.

Revati Laul, Lokpal: An option without a fast or fuss, Public Debate 3, Tehelka.com, July 23, 2011.

Sreelatha Menon, Non-govt, non-Anna draft against single, all-powerful Lok Pal, Business Standard, July 10, 2011.

Seema Chishti, Lokpal: Third draft emerging as civil society debate opens up, Indian Express, July 7, 2011.

Vidya Subrahmaniam, Aruna Roy cautions against haste in passage of Lokpal Bill, The Hindu, July 7, 2011.

Chetan Chauhan, An alternative lokpal bill? Hindustan Times, July 4, 2011.

M. Rajshekhar, Making sense of the differences between Anna Hazare and govt on Lokpal Bill, Economic Times, June 23, 2011.

Himanshi Dhawan, Aruna Roy & Co's Lokpal draft echoes govt's stand, Times of India, June 19, 2011.

Madhu Arora, "Lok Pal should deal with grand corruption,” OneWorld South Asia, June 11, 2011.

Aruna Roy, The Lokpal Debate: Lokpal must lead by example, Daily News and Analysis, May 31, 2011.

Nikhil Dey and Ruchi Gupta, Dangers of all-powerful Lokpal, The Tribune, May 16, 2011.

Nikhil Dey, "Deadline for Lokpal cannot be at the cost of consultation," Civil Society Online, May 2011.

Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta, "The campaign did not focus on specifics," Frontline, Volume 28 - Issue 09 :: April 23-May 6, 2011.

Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Make Sure The Cure Isn’t Worse Than The Disease, Outlookindia.com, April 25, 2011.

Revati Laul, "The Lokpal shouldn’t be so powerful that power corrupts the position", Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 16, April 23, 2011.

Sukumar Muralidharan, Anna Hazare and His Children, Economic and Political Weekly, April 16, 2011.
(Link to author's blog. Full text EPW pdf here.)

Harini Calamur, My issues with the Proposed Jan Lok Pal, POV, April 6, 2011.

Ajay K. Mehra, Criminalisation, society & the polity, The Hindu, August 29, 2002.

Ajay K. Mehra, Politics and corruption in India, The Hindu, October 21, 2000.

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