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Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India

Ideas of India

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How Does the Upea Government Promulgate Right to Information?

In the first 50 years there was no talk of these initiatives. And suddenly the social movement narrative, narrative, is the dominant narrative. The second dominant narrative is that the upea government was actually instrumental promulgating right to information. So entrenched was the norm of secrecy within the state that it was actually thwarted by the bureaucracy. But somehow, once the political power of ideas gained salience within the state thinking, you know, they kind of shape the state interests as well. i hope people buy this argument, no.

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