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, while others like the Hesaraghatta campaign to the CM of Karnataka were more substantive. This was largely earlier catalogued under the 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.
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Batch of RTI work on KFD vaccine (to be liniked)
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Open letter to President Kovind on visit to BR Hills
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Corona Maari collab with ಪುಸುಮಾಲೆ ಕಲಾ ತಂಡ
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