Right to Information in India: Deriving Sustenance from Ancient Indian Culture & Promoting Democracy in India-Juniper Publishers
Juniper Publishers-Social Sciences Abstract In fact, transparency or openness providing information and knowledge about the state and government is a primary and natural requisite for a democratic state like India which derives its roots from the ancient India’s distinguished cultural identity based upon eternal moral values and universal-ethical ideas and ideals, that altogether pave the way for arousal and inculcating of feelings of righteousness, sincerity, devotion and gratitude etc. in one’s heart or mind for realizing his or her responsibility and accountability both in temporal as well as spiritual life in the true spirit of the term. While such sincere and devotional imperatives in the material life of an individual life may lead one towards sublimation, when applied on a society which is an expanded form of an individual, can pave the way for creation of a perfect or just social and political order i.e. from the erstwhile prevailing system of government...