Has been a long-term pre-occupation of mine and is indeed an individual experiment in democracy itself - to be able to exercise all the liberties granted by the Constitution through letters, policy engagements, RTI requests and in-person representations as the case may be.....but in *individual* capacity as a citizen than through my several affiliations. Some forays into this were a tad too frivolous(?) for instance trying to get Veerappa Moily's official vehicle fined for prohibitively dark film on windows (which I think was then and now too banned?) [in Dec 2012 during the 2nd Indian Biodiversity Congress](https://www.daktre.com/2012/12/a-confused-biodiveristy-congress-first-impressions-from-the-2nd-indian-biodiversity-congress/), while others like the [Hesaraghatta campaign](https://www.daktre.com/2022/08/hesaraghatta-wetlands/) to the CM of Karnataka were more substantive. This was largely earlier catalogued under the [*Campaigns*](https://www.daktre.com/category/campaigns/) section (now moved to the digital garden here). The model of engagement here is that of a nudging systems change through civic engagement. A slightly different model of engagement from the idea of online activism or from collective-building (real world and/or online), both of which are important in wider citizen engagement in public affairs. Here the idea is really to move from knowledge generation/knowledge translation role of academia to facilitating transformative *systems* change through civic engagement using Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms related to RTI, engaging with decision-makers and holding *systems* accountable rather than individuals. 1. [[Carrying capacity of hill towns]] 2. [[MM Hills Tiger Reserve]] 3. Batch of RTI work on KFD vaccine (to be liniked) 4. [Hesaraghatta campaign](https://www.daktre.com/2022/08/hesaraghatta-wetlands) 5. Open letter to President Kovind on visit to BR Hills 6. Corona Maari collab with ಪುಸುಮಾಲೆ ಕಲಾ ತಂಡ 7. Last updated: 2026-02-08 22:51