There need not be any right to information for Indians. This is the line of thinking in the United Progressive Alliance, which rules a billion people.
And this comes after enacting a law empowering the citizens to seek exactly the same right.
Declassification of key documents is a routine phenomenon in civilized societies. On June 6, 2006, Nazi era secrets relating to CIA’s murky cold war ties with Nazi Germany were thrown open to the world by the US National Archives.
Needless to say it shows the premier spy agency in bad light.
These documents could not have been shown the light as and when the events which tampered with human conscience unfurled, due to obvious reasons.
It is essential that posterity should have a clear idea of the multitude of the shady and not-so-shady notes and jottings which steered the jittery course of mankind.
After the passage of time, evidence looses its edge as a tool of persecution.
It only retains a verve of curiosity factor, which should be passed on to posterity without fail.
This basic premise, which forms the bedrock of history as well as democracy, is being scuttled by the Indian government.
This subversion of universally acceptable values is unpardonable.
The irony is that if the process of dissemination of information is scuttled, history reinvents itself to sling mud on the perpetrators of such monstrous acts. It is just a matter of time before that happens.
The numb duds presiding over this gory ineptitude do not have much time revel in the comfort zone of suppressed facts.
And this comes after enacting a law empowering the citizens to seek exactly the same right.
Declassification of key documents is a routine phenomenon in civilized societies. On June 6, 2006, Nazi era secrets relating to CIA’s murky cold war ties with Nazi Germany were thrown open to the world by the US National Archives.
Needless to say it shows the premier spy agency in bad light.
These documents could not have been shown the light as and when the events which tampered with human conscience unfurled, due to obvious reasons.
It is essential that posterity should have a clear idea of the multitude of the shady and not-so-shady notes and jottings which steered the jittery course of mankind.
After the passage of time, evidence looses its edge as a tool of persecution.
It only retains a verve of curiosity factor, which should be passed on to posterity without fail.
This basic premise, which forms the bedrock of history as well as democracy, is being scuttled by the Indian government.
This subversion of universally acceptable values is unpardonable.
The irony is that if the process of dissemination of information is scuttled, history reinvents itself to sling mud on the perpetrators of such monstrous acts. It is just a matter of time before that happens.
The numb duds presiding over this gory ineptitude do not have much time revel in the comfort zone of suppressed facts.
