Editors

Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy is a social activist, professor, union organiser and former civil servant, has been living and working with people. She was the president of the National Federation of Indian Women and founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan. 

Suchi Pande is Scholar in Residence, Accountability Research Center at American University in Washington DC. She was Secretary of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information in India.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Prabhat Patnaik

Introduction
Aruna Roy and Suchi Pande

Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen
Thanksgiving from the Mohawk
Otsi’tsaken:ra (Charles Patton)

1. Unpacking Participatory Democracy in an Age of Reaction

Patrick Heller

2. Participation, Citizenship, and the Renewal of Social Democracy in the Time of Covid-19

John Harriss

3. Decentralisation for Creating Local Democratic Space
The Case of the People’s Plan Campaign in Kerala
T. M. Thomas Isaac

4. Populism, Information Disorders, and Erosion of Democracy
The Case of Brazil
Nandini Ramanujam and Paula Martins

5. Democracy Upended
Lessons from Afghanistan
Pearl Eliadis and Lucile Martin

6. Can Information Make the Subaltern Speak?
Rajesh Veeraraghavan

7. Knowledge Panchayats
Shiv Visvanathan

8. The Fiscal Dimension of Justice
From Inequality, the Consequences of COVID, and Systemic Racism
Vivek Ramkumar

9. Do Indians have a Right to Know their Foreign Donors?
Inayat Sabhikhi

10. Speak for Us
Democracy, Digital Media, and the Politics of Voice
Sohini Sengupta

11. Safeguarding Democracy from Organised Information Manipulations
Paid News, Fake News, and Hate Speech in India
Vipul Mudgal

12. Flowering of India’s Democracy
Wajahat Habibullah

13. When We Thought We Had All the Answers, Hindu Supremacy Changed the Questions
Moyukh Chatterjee

A Coda
Aruna Roy

Notes on the Contributors
Index