The Right to Information Act 2005, was put in place to ensure greater transparency and accountability about the functioning of the state machinery, but has it delivered on this promise? In this interview with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta for Newsclick, RTI Activist Anjali Bhardwaj discusses the implementation and effectiveness of this act.
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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/