The United Progressive Alliance touts, amongst various things, the passage of the Right to Information Act as one of the highpoints of governance. It is easy to see why; with a constant presence of the non- governmental types in the posh parts of society, a bill driven by them that aspires to transparency sounds just the correct thing to do. It just sounds good that India passed such a bill, and now has an Act across the country that gives the citizenry more information than they've ever had.
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After all this is the global trend, and India is part of the globalised world.
Taking this logic to its obvious ends, WikiLeaks has sprung one back on the world, and on India in trickles. Julian Assange and his team are either heroes, or villains, and there is no middle ground on this phenomenon. Charges of anarchism and anti- Americanism are being thrown at Assange.
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