Venkatesh Nayak

Contributions

• In the age of RTI, black money info goes inside a black hole
• No mechanism to monitor govt’s own transparency directive
• Sukma deaths no violation of human rights, according to CRPF
• RTI rejection rate high in public sector banks
• Yet another RTI activist is killed. And govt rules propose to drop his queries
• Proposed RTI rules: Point and counter-point
• Making Aadhaar mandatory for filing IT returns violation of constitution
• J&K RTI Act: Poor state of affairs even after eight years
• Cash Donations: More opacity – with legal backing too
• Does the nation have a right to know anything about DeMO-ReMo?
• Party funds: A step forward or a leap backward into the era of secrecy?
• How much cash political parties had pre-DeMo
• Govt must not renege on the commitment made on November 8
• Procedural changes from 1978 may have created huge loopholes
• When, where and how are the ministers depositing ‘cash on hand’?
• Our MPs, without own views, are mere numbers
• What about people`s right to know who the bank defaulters are?
• ‘Good governance’, but through subterfuge!
• Under Modi rule, RTI rejection rate goes up
• Cloaking `Aadhaar` with the sanctity of a law on disputable grounds
• Sedition law: a primer
• RBI under RTI scanner
• RTI Act: a reality check
• Apex court and whistelblowers
• Ten percent rule for leader of opp is a fiction
• Calling RTI an external constraint for PSU banks unfair
• Single directive struck down
• A guide to the Whistleblowers Protection Bill
• Lokpal: Political expediency overtakes war against graft