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Article: Indians get to grips with good governance: John Freebury and Mike Brown report an initiative aimed at bringing good governance to India while Australian Natasha Davis discovers that new freedom of information laws coupled with some determined grassroots activism is bringing far-reaching change in the country.(Lead Story)(Cover Story)
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- For A Change
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- June 1, 2004
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Chandrashekhar Prabhu was a gold medalist student of architecture and town-planning in America's Ivy League when former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent two emissaries to tempt him back to his country of birth. He wasn't interested--he had just got his Green Card and accepted a post at Massachussets Institute of Technology. Finally, the Prime Minister confronted him in person. 'What if you could change the fate of your city?' she asked, He was on the plane home to Mumbai next day.
It's a question that stirs many high achieving Indians. But, as Prabhu found when he dug into the realities of his city of 12 million, whole systems of corruption and vested ...