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    Demand Transparent Accountability: The Mass RTI Appeal to the DHFL Victims Posted on 10th August, 2025 (GMT 07:15 hrs) Authored by  Partyless Society⤡ ABSTRACT This mass RTI appeal urges DHFL victims and their communities to demand transparency regarding the RBI-appointed Committee of Creditors’ (CoC) meetings, voting records, and expenditures during the DHFL insolvency resolution process. Faced with systematic denial of crucial information, this coordinated effort seeks to expose potential manipulation and cronyism that have compromised fair decision-making. By collectively filing RTI requests, the public asserts its right to scrutinize how votes were cast, decisions made, and funds spent—upholding democratic accountability in a process that deeply affects victims and the broader financial system. This appeal highlights transparency as a fundamental democratic right essential to justice and fairness. In Continuation With The  Right to Information (RTI) Ac...

  Corruption, Normalization, and the Procrustean Bed: India’s Grave Crisis Posted on 20th June, 2025 (GMT 21:50 hrs) ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the normalization of corruption in contemporary India through the theoretical frameworks of Michel Foucault and Theodor Adorno. Rejecting the moralistic and legalistic definitions of corruption as insufficient, it argues that corruption functions not as a deviation from institutional norms but as the normative logic of governance itself. Employing the metaphor of the Procrustean bed, the paper explores how disciplinary power, media capture, and cultural internalization enable the institutional reproduction of corruption. Empirical data from Transparency International and the Global Economic Freedom Index further substantiate the entrenchment of corruption across sectors. The study concludes with a call to dismantle the ideological apparatus sustaining this disciplinary regime. 1. Rethinking Corruption Conventional understandings ...