👉🏾👉🏾 this is a sidenote; it’s a way for me to make an important point as an aside to the main narrative. If you see 👉🏾👉🏾 before a stretch of text you know what it means and you can ignore it on first pass This essay on persistence and identity…

Everything is Connected I am of the age at which that supreme idiot, Don Quixote de la Mancha set out to conquer the windmills of the world.

After 4 days of intense deliberations, the Janta ka Faisla jury read out their verdict. Both the Hindi text of the verdict (what was read out) and the English translation are given below. …

CM’s advisor promises to table the Jury Verdict of ‘Janta ka Faisla’ in Labour Planning Task Force On the third day of the ‘Janta ka Faisla’ event, Pradeep Sharma, who is the advisor to CM Bhupesh Baghel, appeared before the janta jury. Government will bring a new scheme for the…

Janta ka Faisla Day 1 Govt reaches public’s doorsteps Raipur, Chhattisgarh The progamme Janta Ka Faisla dedicated to the serve the interests of migrant labourers started at the Pastoral Centre Hall, Byron Bazar, Raipur as per the schedule on Monday. In the beginning of the session, the citizen’s jury of…

Even in the best of circumstances, elite readers and viewers don’t see migrants and other marginal communities as equals, as fellow citizens. …

Janta Ka Faisla (JKF) is a platform for deliberative democracy that seeks to address the needs of migrant workers and represents them as full citizens of India. It offers migrants an opportunity to participate in a jury that addresses the challenges of Indian society, whether they are from Samaaj, Sarkaar…

If you recall, the first wave of COVID and the subsequent lock down affected migrants across India, many of whom had to fend for themselves, walking hundreds of kilometres back home in some cases. That tragedy has now been overshadowed by the even greater challenges presented by the second wave…

Janta ka Faisla, our Citizen’s Jury, is back! We are organizing the first Janta ka Faisla with migrant workers in Chhattisgarh in July. We will be reporting on that event every day for the next month and a half — from today until independence day on August 15th. Expect interviews with migrants, articles on their deliberations, expert interviews and other news items on a daily basis. Together, we hope to showcase a new approach to the practice of citizenship, one that helps create a society of the people, by the people and for the people. Here’s an interview from last year as we start our journey to a better world.