One India One People February issue on ‘Corruption’

For decades, we Indians have been living with ubiquitous corruption.  But the recent events have shaken even the most complacent or cynical Indian. Strong and purposeful action can yet retrieve our republic from the morass of corruption and chaos; failure now could end our dreams of a glorious future as a nation. In the February issue on “Corruption’, One India One People urges citizens and civil society to widely debate the issue and push the parties to act.

Renowned personalities like N. Vittal (former Central Vigilance Commissioner), Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist, Magsaysay Award winner and founder of Parivartan, which works on transparency and accountability in governance), Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan (founder and President of Lok Satta Party which promotes ‘new politics for new generation’), P. K. Ravindranath (veteran journalist), Abhay Mokashi (senior journalist), Justice H. Suresh (former judge of Bombay High Court), and V. Balachandran (former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India) and Kasturi Kannan (researcher on law, policy and governance) debate the issue and offer constructive solutions to end the menace.

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This issue takes you to the picturesque Jim Corbett National Park, named after the fabled hunter and conservationist.  Corbett is unique and distinct and one of the first parks to come under the Project Tiger initiative. Situated in Nainital district of Uttarakhand, the park has a large number of the critically endangered Bengal tiger of India, though rarely spotted. Corbett has been a haunt for tourists and wildlifelovers because of its wide variety of flora and fauna. The park is covered with dense moist deciduous trees and grasslands.

Face to Face brings you up and close with Chandrashekhar Prabhu, former MLA and MHADA President, who speaks candidly about the builder-politician-bureaucrat-underworld nexus and tells us how buying a house in Mumbai has become a distant dream for the homeless due to rampant corruption in the housing sector.   

All this and more in the latest issue of One India One People. To get a copy, post a mail to oiop@vsnl.net