• In the first decade of the 21st century, The Congress-led coalition government was compelled by activists to grant everyone the Right to Information and Education and to launch MNREGA, or the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee. People with scant interest in politics increasingly felt a pressing need to become more vocal in the public domain.
  • Citizenship is defined here by what a person gets, not by what she does, regardless of whether this condition is forced upon or chosen by them.
  • Passive citizens depend on ruler/state to protect them from external aggressors and perceived internal enemies. Upon their re-entry, our democracy has been severely compromised.